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They will pay £180 a month towards my £230 rent.
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That's about standard for housing benefit SG. They work to what is referred to as 'fair rent assessment'. That means they have an idea of what they consider to be fair rent for any given area and property, trouble is the fair rent assessment doesn't actually match what is usually charged in an area: unless you are living in low rent accomodation, such as a housing assoc. (council) house. It's usually standard that if you are in the private sector you will end up paying about £5-£15 p/wk towards your rent. They also take account of room numbers. So if for instance you put down that you use the living room, the kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom, they may say that you are only really entitled to the cost of studio/bedsit type accomodation and dock your benefit accordingly (e.g dock £5 for the separate, therefore, extra room).
That's how it used to work, I think it still does work like that. When I was on housing benefit for my house, i was paying £110 per month towards.