Benefits and working?

It is tough living off benefits, or trying to at least, when we were a bit younger my partner and I moved in together in a new area and thought it would be great to start afresh, we got temporary work here and there but work dried up and we ended up signing on, I also dont keep well with anxiety which didnt help holding down a temporary job,it was a nightmare, we had no money to decorate our flat and lived without carpets and stuff for ages! We only had incoming calls on our phone, couldnt afford a mobile so had to walk to the phonebox, our housing benefit took ages to set up and by the time it had and because we had been working here and there we had loads of rent arrears, for some reason the dss kept asking to see my bank statements and were questioning like �20 my dad had paid in to help me out so I had to get him to write them letters telling them, we ate dinners like a boxed cheesy pasta, beans on toast! We got part time jobs but had to give them up as the dss would deduct what you earned from their money, so basically you would be working for your benefit money. It was a horrible time, but we were just in love and so nothing mattered as long as we were together, we just lay about in bed alot! Then we finally got jobs and everything turned out alright - who ever says you're better off not working are liers well it only works for you if you have like 3 children or something! My advice is get a full time job or even 2 part time ones, or go to college and get a part time job.