Mortgage is paid by housing benefit, you don't have to pay council tax either.
JSA is for bills and spending money. After gas/electric/water/phone/internet you've probably got £20ish a week for luxuries like food.

Also, nope flat rate across the country.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 15:17, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

sky tv does use a lot of electricity

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 15:18, Reply)

Hold up, you can buy a house on benifits?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 15:18, Reply)

If you have a mortgage you will get your interest paid
but only after you've been claiming for 40 weeks, by which point your house will probably have been repossessed anyway.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 31 Jul 2013, 15:19, Reply)

No, but if you lose your job you don't get thrown out on the street straight away.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 15:24, Reply)