help with what wife might get if I rent, separated

Things are moving on with my situation, we are still amicable and we need to move on to a next stage, my situation living in a bed sit is not working as I cannot have the kids, can anyone help me with an idea of what my wife might get with regard to benefit to manage the home, she has been getting up to £190 a month combined child benefit and tax creit, but i believe this has gone up as there was a payment of £700 in sept.
I will be paying £500 a month to rent a house plus bills and food etc etc. I am not sure what I have to pay to her?
do i pay the bills? do i pay the mortgage? I will pay maintenance for the kids. But not sure what she can get?
I need to know as rentals are moving so fast if you dont put your name down you miss them.
Just so you know, wife doesnt work, we have 2 children, 5 and 2 so wife looks after the 2 yr old.
do I pay half the mortgage?

you might be better off moving back in if it's amicable to your family home to save on your outgoings while you resolve a financial split together that's best for the family.
Really mate in my experience the fella is normally the one who goes and becomes the weekend Dad.
The woman bags the majority of the equity in the house so she can keep a roof over the kids heads by topping her income up from usually a part time job with tax credits and housing benefits.
You have to pay child maintenance payments obligatory 15% of your take home 1 kid ,20 % 2 kids, 25% 3 kids.
After that you'll have to get a place of your own but you won't get any help from the state via benefits as you are a single bloke and it's viewed that you have the opportunity to go out and earn,
That's it in a nutshell!
As housing told me we have another families on the books that can't provide one home for their kids so we don't help weekend Dads out!
You're a bloke go out and earn is the legal view here endeth the lesson!
All the best
Pete
all the best

Hi

The £700 is proberbly child tax credits which has been back dated to when you split , the amount per week for 2 kids is around the £80 p/w mark unless if your child gets DLA it goes up but still not £700 per month.

As she will be recieving child maintenance from you she can't claim income support.
She should already be getting a 25% reducution for council tax.

Nothing else that i can think of that she can claim, maybe someone else will know .

Hi angel, no there was payment in her account of an extra £700 and the payments seem to have changed, i am not sure what they are now but have been, Child benefit, 123.10 and Child tax thing £63.24 as far as any organization is concerned we have not yet split! alo we have not sorted the council tax yet.