Parental home

For Student Allowance, a parental home is a home where you live with a parent in a place they own or pay for. This doesn't include situations where:

• you're sharing accommodation, eg you're:
  • both on the tenancy agreement
  • paying board to live in a hostel or boarding house
• you live in a self contained place on your parent's property, eg a place with its own kitchen, shower and bathroom facilities
• you're supporting your parent, eg:
  • you're caring for them
  • you're paying for their accommodation.

For Accommodation Benefit, a parental home is a home where you live with a parent in a place they own or pay for. This doesn't include situations where:

• you're sharing accommodation, eg you're:
  • both on the tenancy agreement
  • paying board to live in a hostel or boarding house
• you live in a self contained place on your parent's property, eg a place with its own kitchen, shower and bathroom facilities
• you're supporting your parent, eg:
  • you're caring for them
  • you're paying for their accommodation.

If you don't live with a parent but live in their house, this is also considered a parental home, unless:

• you or your partner have a child, or
• you pay market rent for the area you live in, or
• you pay the outgoings for the area you live in (eg, mortgage, rates, house insurance and essential repairs and maintenance) and the parent doesn't help you pay for these.