£10 Christmas Bonus
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I haven't had the £10 for three? four? years now I think. Ever since my last PIP review, I've not received it. I know I could contact them about it, but I have enough trauma from the last DWP contact and prefer to not have the £10 than to have to deal with the worry that they're about to mangle my claim (again), so I've just left it.
I just wish I knew it was going to someone who needed it, rather than just back into DWP coffers.1 -
You have answered your own question i feel its not the pensioners who are the ones saying it should go up I also believe it should only be for state pensioners and not everyone on benefits
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Originally, the £10 Christmas Bonus was only for people in receipt of the State Pension. However, in 1972 the SA was less than £7 per week for a single person or under £11 for a couple.
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and so it should be as i stated
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you asked if it is still symbolic to pensioners now as it was in 1972 as a pensioner i said yes it is i cant answer for the none pensioners who receive it there views on life and money would differ
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Surely the Christmas Bonus wasn't "symbolic" to pensioners in 1972. As I said, in 1972 the State Pension was less than £7 per week for a single person or under £11 for a couple. People really looked forward to the Christmas Bonus in the seventies, possibly longer.
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i did not misunderstand your post you stated pensioners i answered as a pensioner i would like to think it was intended as a thank you for contributing to the workforce for many years i very much doubt a married pension age couple both with 35 years work behind them each would care if it was stopped even if it was to raise to your claimed £170 as zipz stated the state pension has been raised from about £11 to £460 ish for a married couple per week and some of us are still expected to pay tax
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I am sure there are a few that need the extra tenna and are grateful for it there are some that see it as an insult and want more you can't please all the people all of the time it's a tenna buy something and give it to someone less fortunate than yourselves boost the economy and make someone smile
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Be careful Michael or you'll have the scope police on your tail for them words..I totally agree though, it's free money. But because it's only a tenner, it's not enough for some people and some people are ecstatic for receiving it. They can insult me with a free tenner anytime😂💷
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haha i have given it some thought and i will stay as i am
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I have yet to see a chancellor manage to balance the books in my time breathing and I don't envisage one doing so until I stop
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He also took his one good eye off the ball when selling off some of our gold reserves costing us as a country a tidy penny about the same time so he did not do us any favours
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Haha I remember it very well
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Ok stop arguing, I've spent it! I've apologised to the DWP for the expense it's cost them, but I threw caution to the wind and spent it all at once.😂😂
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My Christmas bonus is always folded into one of my ESA payments, 8th December this year.
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Mine always came through separately despite being on legacy IR ESA & PIP.
I'll have to keep an eye out for it now that I'm on UC. Though with my UC payment changing each month, it won't be easy to see whether it's been added onto that unless I go to the hassle of opening the statement to check the precise amount first.
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UC isn't one of the qualifying benefits for the Christmas Bonus, so you won't need to check your statements 😊
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Thank you. That'll make it even easier to check as I have PIP paid into a different account from UC. 🙂
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I expect the first people who would of recieved it are pushing up daisies by now so can't be asked
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