Board money for uni son who has decided to move back home

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Just wondered peoples thoughts on financial contribution for son who has tried living in accommodation at his university but just a month in has decided he would rather commute and come home to live.
He will pay for some/most of his food and spend nights at his GF house. His GF will also have nights at my house.
Thoughts in this would be great. Thank you in advance.

I'd instead ask him to do jobs around the house.

Nor me and especially as he will be buying a lot of his own food.

As long as he isn't mean and doesn't take the piss, I'd leave it at that. He is hardly going to be well off.

I never charged them when at uni but the one at home now who works does pay rent/keep. I suppose it depends on your finances. In our case we would have been saving uni rent anyway, in that scenario.

I would not charge anything unless you absolutely need to.

Leaving halls at this stage shows something has gone quite wrong so I would tread carefully. First years generally love living in halls, even when they are shitty.

I wouldn't charge a full time student anything and as PP have said, check he's ok if he left the halls.

When ours lived at home during uni we didn’t charge anything but he financed his own car , social life etc as he had a job .

well there's lots different now - cost of living crisis, possibly the OPs mortgage/rent has increased, fuel has increased, food costs.

OP, I'm also a single parent and it depends what you can afford. I wouldn't charge mine rent, but I might ask for a contribution to food (as mine eat so much). I wouldn't be happy with a gf staying over anything more than occasionally. I certainly would want him to take his share of cleaning responsibilities and share of any other chores - like dog walking etc.

I wouldn't charge anything while he is at university.

Next year our Dd will be doing a year PGCE from home. We won't charge rent/keep but she will be responsible for her own expenses... clothes, transport, etc from her bursary. She will be expected to muck in at home. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, walking the dog... like everyone else.

The way I see it is you either live as part of the household and do stuff within the household or live as a lodger and pay to not do stuff.

He's in full time education so ideally you wouldn't charge him anything - it would be up to you to be paying his accommodation etc if he wasn't at home.

Not necessarily. Depending on OP’s income if he gets a higher level of student loan he’d be expected to pay accommodation with that.

She won’t be getting child benefit anymore and if she claimed universal credit for example she’d also be losing the child element.

I wouldn't charge while in education / apprentice. Then 20% of take home once out of education.

Won't he still owe for the accommodation for the east of the year?

I'm in a similar position. I don't take rent but he does contribute to good and toiletries. Rather than giving me money he takes a turn at the good shop every couple of weeks

*rest of the year

Same. Nothing except civil adult behaviour at home.