[AbiDrew85]

My partner works 10 hrs a week to earn minimum wage (£6.70) and has to pay a whole weeks wages just to afford the bus there and back each day.
And our housing benefit got cut by about 16% for the next year because of some bullshit mistake they made overpaying us while i was working
Our rent is about £120 higher than our housing benefit so somehow out of the £200 my partner has left over after his bus fares and the £200 I get from jobseekers allowance we have to pay our council tax (£60), electric(£40), water(£30), insurance (£20), phone bills (£30), laundry tokens (£20), and our rent (£120)
Leaving us £80 or so for the month

Sounds like living expenses for us are higher, but your partner makes less than mine. I don't know the exact exchange between British pounds and USD though. Definitely feel your pain.