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Parents and children under 23

  • 22-05-2008 10:01AM
    #1
    Misticles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭


    if you dont live at home are your parents financially responsible for you if you are in full time education untill you are 23??


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  • #2
    ash_18x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭ash_18x


    Misticles wrote: »
    if you dont live at home are your parents financially responsible for you if you are in full time education untill you are 23??


    as far as i know they are (correct me if i am wrong though!)!

    my friend went back to college at 21, hadnt lived at home and was financially independent since she was 18 but because she was under 23 she had to submit all her parents income details in order to get the grant. its a bit of a joke of a system really.


  • #3
    Misticles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭Misticles


    i recently left home cos my mothers a crackpot so it was her fault i had to leave. when i go back to college i wont be able to afford rent as i wont be earning alot as its my final yr. so i think its only fair she should pay as it was her behaviuor that drove me out!


  • #4
    ash_18x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭ash_18x


    Misticles wrote: »
    i recently left home cos my mothers a crackpot so it was her fault i had to leave. when i go back to college i wont be able to afford rent as i wont be earning alot as its my final yr. so i think its only fair she should pay as it was her behaviuor that drove me out!


    that doesnt mean you will get anything off her though.
    maybe you should ring the citizens advice and ask them their opinion, you might be able to get some help somewhere, there are lots of grants out there.

    i was talking from the angle of the grants system, in the sense that it is crazy that you would be judged on your parents income till you aer 23, they might be loaded and giving you nothing and because of that you get nothing.

    ring around!


  • #5
    echosound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭echosound


    So your mother has allowed you live at home thus far while attending college, and you now think she should pay for you to rent somewhere while you go to college as you have moved out?

    If you're in your final year, you must be at least 20 at this stage - why on earth should your mother be funding you? Especially when you call her such endearing names as crackpot? Get a part time job and pay your own way. It can be done, even in your final year. Most of my classmates and I worked to fund ourselves through college, so it's not like it's impossible. In fact in your final year you may find that you have less classes/lectures to attend and more free time to work on your thesis or dissertation, so if you schedule yourself properly it's easy to hold down a part time job, get your work done for your thesis, study for exams and attend whatever lectures you still have.

    Or get a loan out and pay it back when you finish college. Parental responsibilty ends when you are officially an adult - ie 18. After that, it's your parent's choice as to whether or not they wish to continue to support you.


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