How much do you give your child on top of their loan?

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Hi, DD hopefully starting uni in Sept. We are on a very tight budget as DH is currently not working and I'm self employed. Just budgeting for next year, very very grateful that she got nearly full loan which will cover most of Hall fees (catered if she gets her first choice). How much do people generally budget to cover additional expenses, clothes, lunches, pocket money etc? Thanks.

you are all so generous.

I had the full loan (this was in 2000). My parents had very little cash spare but would give me perhaps £300 for my birthday. I worked all of the summer holidays which gave me around £1500, and then I had a job during term time and over Christmas/Easter.

DD has £200 a month , phone and rail fares from us . First year that was fine, she worked. Year 2 we had topped her up extra £700 on top. This year her loan goes up so not expecting to have to depending on what happens with her year abroad.

Some of the £200 is funded by what we save on the food bill.

@Tempjob

you are all so generous.

I had the full loan (this was in 2000). My parents had very little cash spare but would give me perhaps £300 for my birthday. I worked all of the summer holidays which gave me around £1500, and then I had a job during term time and over Christmas/Easter.

IT is not as simple as getting a job.DD has to do 1000 hours placement, which involves 3, 6 or 12 weeks of 9 to 5 plus easily an hours commute either way while in placement. She may also be placed further away where she will have to live elsewhere, although those expensies are paid. She does have very cheap accomodation compared to most but only qualifies for about 5k maintenance so covers her rent plus about 1k left.If she went to here second choise rent would have been double she pays now

She has spent summer in US doing Camp America where she just about came out even but was promoted this year and was going to earn a lot more , but this obviously hasnt happened, but she has had 3 weeks work in a sen scheme. she gets a weeks work at christmas and easter as well.
As i said above we give her £50 a week, pay for phone, travel and some clothes and the odd big food shop

We paid my stepsons' rent directly and an allowance into their accounts. I can't remember how much but it covered the basics - food etc.