Board/rent for working teenage children

thorsoak

RuthnJasper wrote: »

Haha! That's a new one on me! :rotfl::D:rotfl: I'd never have had the nerve to do that to my mum though!

When I lived with my parents, I paid a very minimal amount but paid for and did all my own cooking and laundry.

Best wishes for it all, anyway. x

But did you pay for your own detergent, pay extra towards water and electricity bills?

pleasedelete

I wouldnt charge mine anything. They dont really cost anything to have at home (they are currently students- away from home but 1 does also work).

When they are home they pretty much take care of themselves. They might eat cereal and drink milk but that is about it. They do their own food (unless I am cooking family meal when I would have invited them anyway). The electric in minimal- it didnt really drop when they left home.

They are useful as they let the dog out and walk it and ensure that the house is not empty when we are away. Give and take really. They pay for their own cars and phones etc so my only expense having them at home is an odd bit of food.

My friend charged all 3 of hers. Unknown to then it all went into a savings account. When they left home she was able to give them £10k each towards a deposit

RuthnJasper

thorsoak wrote: »

But did you pay for your own detergent, pay extra towards water and electricity bills?

Yes to all of them. Mum used to nick my fabric conditioner, as she never bought it herself, but I pretended not to notice...

claire16c

HappyMJ wrote: »

A little less than the market rate for a room in your area. A room in my area can be rented for £40 a week with some bills included so maybe £30 a week excluding food which he can sort out. https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/staffordshire/burton-on-trent/3150671

That's got to be one of the cheapest room rates I've ever seen.

Why would you charge your own child near market rate?

Where I live sharing a room in a house is around £600 a month - that could be more than the parents mortgage!

missindecisive

Just wondering....do families have to declare their grown up children's keep as 'other income' say for tax credits purposes?

fivetide

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

Hi, thanks for asking.

I based it on the sort of prices my friends paid at our student houses at the same age. I know there not comparable really as have pros/cons to each. Obviously in a student house you have to pay all the bills (bar council tax ofc), pay for food etc. I'm not sure how much he is earning but presumably more than the pittance we had left from the loan/ wages.

Good response! appreciate the explanation. Just seemed a bit specific given the lack of available information so good to know the logic behind it.

Buzzybee90

fivetide wrote: »

Good response! appreciate the explanation. Just seemed a bit specific given the lack of available information so good to know the logic behind it.

You're welcome.

House shares (at least student houses in my experience) tend to be be pretty grotty but you get free reign/ independence whereas parents houses tend to be much nicer and certainly warmer, less arguments, often bigger/ garden maybe. Swings and roundabouts! So that's why I suggested a similar amount

I now pay £325 - each - (£300 in student house) for a beautiful little flat.

But if that amount is crazy compared with wages then of course scale down as relevant!

meritaten

I don't know about others, but I agreed with my kids that a quarter of their wages went into 'board and lodge', as that left them a decent amount while still 'contributing'. one of my sons often gave me an extra tenner or twenty.

Raksha

My son is on a zero hours contract, so we've agreed 30% of his take home a week, with a maximum of £25

JIL

I must be soft. The older two never really earned when they were at home and never came back after uni. We ended up giving them money to supplement their student loans.
The youngest pays us £100 per month. She earns just over £1000 per month. Which then goes into a savings account. Only there's not much in there as its been used to pay for holidays, driving tests and other things that have cropped up.
She doesn't eat at home very often, her washing goes in with ours and she does do a bit round the house.
I was always skint when I was her age and it stopped me doing a lot of things young adults do. I hope that she is able to have some good experiences before she settles down into bills and housing costs.
I would not want to charge her a commercial rate, that's my prerogative. She's our daughter not a commercial lodger.