Uni money to live on

[Kattya]

Just after a few options/advice. DD off to Uni. She's in halls and her maintenance loan doesn't cover all of her rent so we will have to top that up. I'm just wondering how much she will need to live on. She will get a job she's not work shy but I dont want her to be working all the time as she needs to study so was thinking of giving her so much a week for food etc ??

40 weeks will be September to June

DS1 is a v fussy eater. But would be great if he could get together with some others the same and do a big order.

@grumpyoldbag - thank you! In that case, based on the Tv Licensing site and backed up with MSE website I think I can be pretty confident that DS doesn't need a license. pockets £147 😃

Re TV license - if you don't watch BBC iPlayer or any other live television, you don't need a tv license. You can watch any other channels catch up services (ITV player, 4OD or whatever it's called now) and as long as it's not live and it's not iPlayer, there's no need to buy a license.

If you do watch iPlayer or live tv, you either need to get a license or you can rely on your parents license at home as long as the device you are watching on is not plugged in at the time.

I have to say, as a student with almost all my friends students too, none of us have a license and none of us would bother paying for one. We all stream stuff from the internet, use Netflix etc - we don't miss iPlayer one bit and it certainly isn't worth that amount of money to us!