Benefits question confusion - are Christmas Gifts income?

Urbenmyth

I've been looking this up and I've got, like, 5 different answers. I know they count as capital if they're large enough (they're not), but I wanted to know if they were income.

The main answer I've been getting is "no", but I've heard a few people say it might do and one person say any bank transfer counts as unearned income for universal credit, which seems to be not the case but would be very worrying if it was.

Anyone who knows what they're talking about know what's going on?