How much should I charge my sons for living at home?

[Choochuw]

I have 3 children.

1 still in high-school.

1 just starting his first proper job after doing volunteering/short apprenticeship.

Just a normal min wage job.

And a 2nd son who will be finishing college soon and again will be getting a min wage job probably.

I am disabled and when they were tiny I always thought it was mean to charge and I do want them to stay home as long as they want.

But obviously all CTC/CB has/will stop.
I do get housing benefit but I will get deductions for them both.
Council tax too.
Food is so expensive now
And my rent had gone up 8%

Should I just work it all out and charge a percentage? Or just charge what it is actually costing me to have them home.

I wish I was in a better situation and didn't have to ask :(

I mean the proportion of the rent that is not paid in benefits obviously

Just to add, I think it's very different if parents are paying a mortgage and it will eventually be a house that they own outright. DH and I chose this house with a mortgage, and so we expect to have to pay for it ourselves. We don't need a big garden in a nice area, so wouldn't ask adult DC to contribute towards that. If someone is living in a council property and having to live off benefits, the adult offspring in that house will also be renting and should contribute (which is reflected in the OPs benefit reductions). It's two very different circumstances.

Well no its about what parents can afford
And most adults pay for their phone, clothes etc

Good for you
But you understand we are not all comfortably off and can afford to charge so little ?
These threads are always ridiculous because many posters can only view things from their own of own privileged circumstances .