Associate
If you think finding a decent place in London for not much money was bad if you have a job, it's worse when all you have is the pittance that the government hands out when you don't have a job and the limits put down in both the LHA rates and the benefit cap means that you can't get a box in places where the LHA is around £260/w because of the cap and even in areas where the cap doesn't matter the boxes are even smaller and the landlords won't even accept anyone on benefits and even those that do are either in the high LHA that get nuked by the cap or are once again micro box studios or bedsits.
I've all but given up on remaining in London because of this and I've decided to set my sights on Liverpool since for the LHA rate I can actually get a one bedroom flat or even a two bedroom flat if it weren't for the bedroom tax, and I won't be paying out all my pittance on council tax and other bills, and even then if I do get a 30 hour a week job that pays minimum wage, I'd still be better off then I would be in London or maybe it'd be around the same since I didn't do any calculations with what I'd get in working tax credits and housing benefit (although, I've decided that the move will be more of a fresh start for me finally living on my own, but I'll have to find help to get things done).
I've all but given up on remaining in London because of this and I've decided to set my sights on Liverpool since for the LHA rate I can actually get a one bedroom flat or even a two bedroom flat if it weren't for the bedroom tax, and I won't be paying out all my pittance on council tax and other bills, and even then if I do get a 30 hour a week job that pays minimum wage, I'd still be better off then I would be in London or maybe it'd be around the same since I didn't do any calculations with what I'd get in working tax credits and housing benefit (although, I've decided that the move will be more of a fresh start for me finally living on my own, but I'll have to find help to get things done).