• Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 69 subscribers
  • Views 2003 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Autistic adult child wracking up huge mobile phone bills

NAS91077

Hi, have just joined the group as looking for some advice. My step-son who is autistic is almost 22 and lives at home with me and his mum (my wife). He is wracking literally hundreds of pounds every month on his mobile phone (we don't know on what exactly, but suspect downloading games but it could be other stuff). He refuses to put the contract into his mums name so she can monitor usage and restrict purchases. He has a full time job so it comes out of his wage, but that's not really the point. We don't know how to manage. Does anyone have any suggestions? 

Parents

  • Does he pay you anything for food and towards bills, or a form of rent? If not, introducing this might give him some more grounded appreciation about money and what is needed to live day to day. I would do some research on rental in shared accommodation in your area and what monthly bills would be like, if he were living in a shared house. Then I would ask him to pay some proportion of this to you and your wife, half, a quarter or perhaps less.

Reply

  • Does he pay you anything for food and towards bills, or a form of rent? If not, introducing this might give him some more grounded appreciation about money and what is needed to live day to day. I would do some research on rental in shared accommodation in your area and what monthly bills would be like, if he were living in a shared house. Then I would ask him to pay some proportion of this to you and your wife, half, a quarter or perhaps less.

Children