YOU’RE KIDDIN’

Over-55s are still at home

HALF a million “kidults” aged 55 and over still live with their parents.

The generation of grown-ups who never moved out – like Ronnie Corbett’s Timothy, right, in 80s sitcom Sorry! – cost their elderly mums and dads £120 a month.

Expenses include food, clothes, fuel, holidays – and even “pocket money”. Miriam Tierney, from Spareroom, which carried out the study, blamed the stay-at-home trend on soaring house prices. She said: “We’ve known for some time that the number of adults living at home with their parents has been rising. What hasn’t been clear, until now, is just how much of their lives people could be spending in the family home.” She added: “There are, of course, plenty of positives to multi-generational living, and in many countries and cultures it’s the norm. “However, in the UK the trend is clearly being driven by the housing crisis rather than choice, and it’s restricting career and social opportunities for a whole generation.”