Check here:-
http://www.direct.gov...ow_income/DG_10018926
"Your personal and financial circumstances
Your local council will look at:
money you and your partner or civil partner have coming in, including earnings, some benefits and tax credits, and occupational pensions
your savings (and your partner's or civil partner's savings)
your circumstances: such as your age, the size of your family and their ages, whether you or any of your family are disabled, and whether anyone who lives with you could help with the rent"