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Living with a parent

Living with a parent means a student is living in the same home as a parent.

For Student Allowance purposes living with a parent does not include situations where:

  • the parent is financially dependent on the student or
  • the student, at their own expense, provides accommodation for the parent in the home or
  • the student provides a substantial degree of care to the parent or
  • the home is a hostel, boarding house or similar lodging and the student and the parent pay for accommodation in it

For more information see:

Accommodation Benefit
Living away from home rate

Legislation

  • Parental home (definition) regulation 2 Student Allowances Regulations 1998
  • Amounts of certain grants schedule 2 Student Allowances Regulations 1998
  • living with a parent (definition) Schedule 2 Social Security Act 2018
  • boarding house (definition) section 66B Residential Tenancies Act 1986
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Substantial degree of care means a level and type of personal care and support that enables the parent(s) to remain living in their own home or living with a family member. It involves more than simply providing accommodation.

A boarding house is a residential premises containing 1 or more boarding rooms along with facilities for communal use by the tenants of the boarding house; and occupied, or intended by the landlord to be occupied, by at least 6 tenants at any one time.

Facilities means the facilities provided by the landlord of a boarding house for the shared use by tenants of the boarding house, such as: