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Originally Posted by Judas

Basically, yes. If an individual is living with their parents and they are of sufficient income to support the individual they don't need as much money. They don't need to pay for food, accomadation, gas, electricity, water, internet, council tax, state tax, etc. And thus often in these cases the money is spent on crap, when some people actually need the money.

(This is in general cases, not directly aimed at Scott)

Well the simple answer to this one is that parents should always charge their kids board money if they are at working age and still living at home. The benefit system pretty much takes this as a given although not all parents do it.