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  • gerrys6
    gerrys6 Online Community Member Posts: 183 Contributor
    I’m not worried about the ten pound bonus I was more thinking why haven’t they just added it to the Payment of the p I p next payment 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    They didn't with my daughter either, hers was paid separately.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 584 Listener
    I just asked about mine while I was on the phone asking if they'd received my review forms (they have), I get mine tomorrow with my ESA.
  • sam12
    sam12 Posts: 1,337 Empowering
    Ok i got mine to Last wk
  • Jaculin
    Jaculin Online Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
    edited June 2019
    Does anyone think like me that the £10 "Christmas bonus" is an insult? I remember my Mum getting it LAST CENTURY and it was £10 then!! Why hasn't it been increased per inflation, even just once in a while?

    "When it was launched by Ted Heath's Tory government in 1972, the bonus paymentwas worth £98 in today's money. The £10 Christmas boost was then worth more than the £6.75 basic state pension" 
  • cristobal
    cristobal Online Community Member Posts: 984 Championing
    Hart86 said:
    I’ll be honest, I’m surprised they haven’t gotten rid of it completely!

    @hart86 - do you mean get rid of Christmas, or just the £10 bonus?

  • Matilda
    Matilda Online Community Member Posts: 2,592 Championing
    The £10 bonus was introduced as a gimmick to boost the popularity of the then government.  It wasn't intended to be a 'benefit' to be uprated.  Same with the current £200 heating allowance.  This will never be uprated and in 50 years' time will be worth peanuts, of course.
  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Online Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    Whhhhhhhhaaaattttt? ? 
  • Fitznspatz
    Fitznspatz Online Community Member Posts: 45 Contributor
    The £10 bonus was introduced in 1972. Adjusted for inflation, that equates to £130 today. When introduced it was equivalent to 1.5 times the basic state pension. On that basis the Christmas bonus should now be £252.
  • cristobal
    cristobal Online Community Member Posts: 984 Championing
    Just wondering if it's a bit early for this?

    They haven't even got the Christmas lights up yet where I live, and there are no mince pies in Tesco...
  • Fitznspatz
    Fitznspatz Online Community Member Posts: 45 Contributor
    Mornings start getting darker on Tuesday. It’s downhill to Christmas after that!
  • sam12
    sam12 Posts: 1,337 Empowering
    Not Christmas yet 
  • Matilda
    Matilda Online Community Member Posts: 2,592 Championing
    It was a gimmick.  Would have cost governments a lot of money to update - so they didn't update.

    Wouldn't surprise me if they did remove it altogether - after all, they plan to remove  free T V licences for many over 75s
  • sam12
    sam12 Posts: 1,337 Empowering
    I b busy later setting up new moblie replacement mine faulty. Got better deal new model as mine wasn't avail to replace lol
  • sam12
    sam12 Posts: 1,337 Empowering
    UK are cheap skates only treat other countries before us 
  • sam12
    sam12 Posts: 1,337 Empowering
    My foot weight a ton. Am getting sleep

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