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£85 is insane to live on, is that part of a separate payment? The jobseeker’s, dole, disability in Ireland is over twice that. Is social insurance a separate provision?
You can also get Council Tax benefit, and Housing Benefit (more of a Landlord Benefit, really).
Council tax benefit saves you either some or all of the local council tax payment (~£1000 - £2500 per year in most places). Amusingly, it tends to be cheaper in wealthy areas.
Landlord benefit pays a percentage of what the Landlord asks for rent, generally compared to average rents in the area you live - so that might be £2000 - £3000 per year where I live in the North, but £10000 per year down South somewhere. You don’t see any of that money personally, but it helps to make good headlines for angry “newspapers” and government policies.
There’s additional bits of payment for caring for children under a particular age, disability etc, but generally, yeah, that’s your lot.
How much you pay is proportional to how much your property is worth (see Wikipedia for deets)
