Renting a house/ flat

[Mrs puglove]

Right wanna as you guys a few questions and advice.
Me and the mrs have decided its time for us to settle down and get our own place. We've been together over 3 years and both feel we are ready!

We would ideally like a 2 bedroom house.

Both of us only work part time her earning around £100 a week and me earning £150 a week. We was originally told that we can both claim housing benefits seeing as we only work part time. But that was also informed that housing benefits are being stopped for people under 25 so due to lazy people that leave school and sit on dole or get pregnant have ruined that one for us, as the idea was 2 bedrooms saves moving out when we have a kid.

What I'm asking is if you live in a 1 bedroom flat or 2 bedroom house then how much roughly do you pay a week?

Rent? (I know different prices for areas I'm in Nottingham and live 30 minutes from city centre).

Council tax?
Water?
Gas?
Electric?
Can't forget broadband and tv?
Then we got to think food bills.

Saving for deposit first months rent and appliances isnt a problem.

I am also looking for full Time work or possibly move to another store to do more hours on the home deliveries as 25 hours is just over £200 .

Thanks in advance

I work for a housing company in a lettings department and to be fair you definatly wouldnt be able to get HB on a 2 bed house unless you could find the money for the extra room due to bedroom tax. Alot of organisations have stopped underoccupying properties from the word go.

Your only chance would be a 1 bedroom.

They work out the amount of HB you are entitled to...and then 14% of that you would have to pay yourself for the extra room....its not 14% of the total rent .....hope this makes sense.

if you work over 16 hours you wont get ANY benefis at all.