Housing benefit declined

Hey,

I recently applied for housing benefit after a colleague of mine told me about it. I used the Turn2us.co.uk checker and it all seemed to be pointing in the direction of me being entitled to something.

I work full time as a bar tender on minimum wage, share a flat with a friend renting from a private landlord where I pay £375 and my flatmate pays £350.

I received the reply from the council today and the first page says "Weekly housing benefit £0" so I'm assuming I'm not getting anything.

Asked my friend in work who is in the same situation except he works only 30 hours/week as opposed to my 39 and he pays a bit less rent. He gets £100+/week from the council in housing benefit/working tax credits...

Basically I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this, on the council websites it says housing benefit is to support people on a "low income"...is full time minimum wage not low?

Thanks for any help
Andrew