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Hi Reddit,

I'm a homeowner living in London, I live in a 2 bed flat and rent out a room. I'm looking for some advice for how I can help out my lodger, and also how I can navigate a delicate situation.

She is a 30-something year old immigrant who works in a coffee shop, but she just got a voluntary position at a research library which is her chosen career path.

She's been hinting that she's going to have to apply for a tax credit, because she's going to be working fewer hours. The alternative is that she may need to borrow money from her parents to pay the rent.

Now I'm tempted to offer another reduction, because it's great that she's doing the internship to help her move into work that she cares about. However I already reduced her rent a couple of months ago to a lower amount. This was basically because renting sucks and landlords are assholes - I wanted to get a friendlty housemate who makes a reasonable contribution to the mortgage, but who I'm not fleecing.

Also I'm reticent to take responsibility for her finances. She's said herself that she struggles with motivation, so if I make things easy for her she may just sit back and not really do anything with the volunteering opportunity...

So I'm not sure what to do. A few options that came to mind include:

* Don't say anything, but drop some hints that I might be flexible, forcing her to take responsibility for asking for help
* Look into her options for benefits, as an EU immigrant
* Be direct about it, and tell her I'm concerned that she may not be able to pay the rent level we agreed

Any ideas appreciated.
<bot>: Lodger has volunteering opportunity in preferred career path, but she may not be able to pay the rent. Should I help, or stay out of it?