How much do you people understand 25 get in benefits if they dont work?

[JacknDiane]

If they stay at home.?

Does anyone know?

I. Presuming its not much?

@JacknDiane do you mean "under 25" ?

Understand or under 25

@JacknDiane and by "staying home" do you mean living with their parents?

Under 25s get £338 a month if living at home

£393 per month, plus help with housing costs if applicable.

My 21-year-old could easily live on that if he lived at home.

Its like pocket money from the tax payers

Jeez, I wish people would at least proofread their thread title. Utter gibberish.

It costs about £160 a month to keep my under-25. If he was 20 and no longer in FT education, he would cost an extra £80 in council tax, so total £240.

If I charged him at cost, that would leave him £150/month pocket money from the state.

Sounds ok to me.

I thought it was £338 if living at home and under 25?

Where are people getting the £393 figure from?

Yes, it is.

What?

Why would he cost you more in Council tax ?

@Monty36You lose your single person’s council tax discount.

entitledto.co.uk suggests an under-25 year old looking for work while living rent-free at friends/family will get £338 of Universal Credit. I suppose this is equivalent for the old unemployment benefit/jobseekers allowance.

Surely they have to be looking for work, going to appointments, showing they are applying for jobs though and are under constant surveillance for it, money being reduced or taken back if they earn anything and so on. It's not a case of doing nothing and the money gets paid into their bank accounts.

Though I only learned recently that you could claim UC while living with parents. I remember being laughed at by the job centre 30 years ago when I asked if I could claim when I left university and didn't yet have a job.

When I was at university a lot of students used to claim dole during the long vacation. Not sure when that was banned, but I am talking late 80s/early 90s.

Why? Do you have a child in this situation?

It must have stopped around 1992 because I did this every university holiday but my brother a year younger wasn't able to.

Don't see why you would have been laughed at for trying to claim benefits 30 years ago? I claimed JSA for the two months between graduating and starting my first job in 1998. I was living at home at the time.

Get their backside out of the door and make them go and find a job stacking shelves or washing glasses then. If nobody will give them a job, they can knock on doors asking if people want any work done on their gardens or whatever.

The state does not owe lazy people a living.

It's currently £338 for under 25s living with their parents. If the parents claim UC for themselves and this includes housing costs, the parents UC is reduced because it is assumed that the son/daughter is contributing towards the rent.

My son gets more than this but he lives in supported living.

This. No able bodied 20 year old should be claiming benefits

It's hardly constant surveillance as they only have one appointment every week or fortnight though you are broadly right.