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Rent for working older children

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brooksghost · 26/08/2024 20:58

For those who have older working teenagers, are you charging rent and if so, how much?
DD is 19 and has decided not to return to Uni for her second year. She is working 3 days a week and is earning approx £1000 a month.
We are currently paying for everything still (phone, food), doing her washing...she does nothing around the house. I'll add, she is very high functioning autistic so we are still relied upon a lot to help her function through daily life.
So, at what point do you start charging rent and getting them to pay for their own things like phones etc.
Thanks!

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Peacepleaselouise · 19/06/2025 11:42

It really depends on your own financial situation. Well off parents might take rent and save it for them for a house deposit/car, but many families will have lost CB or other financial support related to having an under 18 so they won’t be able to subsidise it.

I definitely had more disposable income as a late teen than I had for most of the rest of my adult life which I’m not sure was that helpful!

TiredArse · 19/06/2025 11:52

BeachLife2 · 12/06/2025 16:12

Nothing. It's their home, not a hotel.

DH is Spanish and parents charging 'rent' to their DC would be torn a new one by family there. It would be the talk of the town- and not in a good way.

Yet another way in which youngsters have it so hard in the UK compared to elsewhere.

What happens if say the parents are on a low income, perhaps retired or ill, and the adult child is on a good wage. Is it really the done thing to let your parents struggle?

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