If your Mum claims HB and has an empty bedroom, then she receives only the HB to cover the bedrooms needed by the family
Your Mums child benefit stops when you are 19
as does child tax credits, when you stop college/school
What you need to do is look for a p.t job and start earning your own money,
Students do not get housing benefit, so contribute to the rent and other household costs,
if that is what your mum needs you to do
Typical rent we charge students at uni is ￡14 a week from september its currently ￡13.
When you go to uni your bedroom will be seen as unused, the housing benefit will be REDUCED by a percentage for the empty room.
￡40 is almost NOTHING to live on - most students would KILL or REMOVE A TESTICLE to get that kind of living cost.
So yea she is your mom and you intend to live at home when not at uni - get a part time job and welcome to the REAL WORLD. Your almost an adult time to start acting like one.
You will need a crap part time job too, uni is not cheap and you will need fares etc to get there unless you actually live in walking distance, you will need to eat too and clothes and books, and lots and lots of other stuff.
You aint got it have you?
SHE is under NO obligation to house you now, cos you are 19
SHE can set whatever rate she is willing to accept for you to stay in her house
YOU have NO say is whether its "fair" "right" or "correct" or "whether she needs it"
YOU have 2 options
1) Pay what she asks
Or 2) find your own place.
(￡40/week is dead cheap for accomdation, food, heating and utilities
It would cost you a LOT more than that for your own place - even shared.
You think its still too much then either get a part time job or a bigger loan)
this is obviously something your mum has decided that you need to do now that you are paste the 'minor' stage and attending college
it is probably not a requirement other than what your mum has decided
Hey.
I am 19 years old and I start uni in September this year on a full time course. I won't have a job and only will be living off my student loan. My mum says that I will have to pay around ￡40 a week towards the household. I'm not sure if this is right? I've read online that I would have to pay bedroom tax which is ￡16 a week. She receives housing benefit I'm sure and she had job which is minimum wage. I know that her child benifits etc. will be cut because I am no longer a child. But is this ￡40 a week correct? I don't know much about household costs and tax credits as it is. So I'm just trying to work out whether she's telling the truth or trying to take money she doesn't really need out of my student loan. I will only be getting a certain amount of loan each term also so I would end up being left with almost nothing after paying her. Our house is also a 3 bed council one.
