How much board to charge?

[Contemplatinglife]

Looking for opinions please, 17 year old son starting an apprenticeship. How much board should we charge? Will be losing the child benefit money we receive for him

DS is 17 and works two jobs since finishing school in June. He gives us 50€ a week from his main full time job, and saves the rest. His 2nd job which is a few evenings and the odd weekend is his weekly spending money, fuel money etc. He pays for his hair cut and hair products, all his own clothes and trainers. He often eats out with friends, that’s all his own money.
We pay for his phone 12€ and PlayStation plus 8€ a month.
He doesn’t need to work two jobs, he just chooses to do so, likes to be busy.
we are planning on saving some of the the board he gives us, and one day when we wants to move out he’ll have a good lump sum to put towards it - he doesn’t know this.

I think I’d ask for the child benefit contribution and if they wanted items that are not deemed necessary I’d probably ask for a contribution if I was also helping pay for something. Ie. Expensive trainers or the like

Ds will be starting an apprenticeship next year, taking in c£1.1k per month. I think I’ll be looking to him to pay for his phone, hair cut and clothes (he shows no interest in clothes regardless) from that. He’ll need to save money to fund a car pretty sharp as it’s a bit of a treck on public transport (2 hrs vs 35mins drive) so I’m thinking while he’s doing that, to not charge him, however dp would like to charge him £100 a month housekeeping as soon as he starts so he gets used to the idea.

That’s too young to charge! Poor boy!

30% with the goal of teaching budgeting. Starting out with a paycheck and no real responsibilities is not a good way to learn money management. It will set him up for a lifetime of thinking he has more disposable income than he will really have available.

i would only use the amount of cb you are using and put the rest into savings for him.