The income assistance provided is unlikely to be enough to live on. Many are living in homeless shelters even when they receive income assistance because they can not find or afford housing. Are you from India? If so, it can be extremely difficult to get asylum application approved. Do you have proof of you or your family’s persecution and do you have proof that you have moved to other regions of India and still faced persecution. Proof of hospital records, police records, etc. There have been significant asylum applications especially in the past year so it could take up to 2+ years to get a hearing and then another 2 years to get PR. Most are not reunited with family until they get PR so many are separated from their families for 3+ years but often much longer. If your life is at risk of course it is worth it but many are counselled that this is an easy road to obtain PR with guaranteed approval and that is far from the case.