£10 Christmas bonus.

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Just curious as to if you got yours from DWP (PIP etc). When? And what amazing thing you bought with it?
Mine came yesterday and I bought electric and gas top ups, chocolate and painkillers.

What is DWP and PIP??

Department of work and pensions
Personal independence payment

Surely it’s better than nothing? Most people get zero bonus at Christmas!

Oh FFS, joy sucker

Ooh I'll tell my mum to expect here

I was surprised to get a bonus on benefits, can't complain about extra free money can you. I'm grateful for anything on top of the usual as well as the original payment.

Mine will go towards my massive overdraft that I'm in... Noel noel.

Wow you got a lot with your £10. I'd spend it on coffee and cake.

A sandwich & cup of tea for lunch then 2 cones of chips for my DD and I for tea!

I thought they were scrapping it? Maybe that's next year. I'll tell dm and do to look out for it. We might get a takeaway with it.

Not complaining. Much appreciated yesterday. £6 electric. £2 gas. Box of 45p ibuprofen . The rest on chocolate like a little present to myself.

I didn't know about this but it seems like a good idea. Christmas is an expensive time.

I work part time and get PIP. You get £10 bonus first week or so of Dec. I think they're trying to scrap it for UC claimants though.

It's only if you get disability benefits. I'm putting it towards the brand new coat that my autistic child has lost after two wears

My DD gets DLA and every year at Christmas we get £10 extra. My mum got it in her pension, not sure what she splashed out on.

@babysharkah I imagine to help with extra heating costs, Christmas etc...

It is £10, hardly worth getting outraged over.

£10? WTF do you get a bonus when on benefits?
I would imagine it us to assist with all the extra costs associated with Christmas.
I know its not much but I hope it helps families.

It will probably go towards what ever my daughter decides to break, draw on or cut up over Christmas due to the change in her routine 😐

I always remember my Great Granny getting excited about the £10 pensioners' Christmas bonus. Probably because this was in the 1970s so worth quite a bit more than it is now.

The £10 bonus has been paid for about 40 or 50 years at that level. When it was first introduced, it was more than the weekly pension/other benefits, so worth a fortune in comparison.

Worth hardly anything now. If it had kept up with inflation, it would probably be £100-200 now.

I got mine for my carer's allowance. Pay for dc to go ice skating.

Look at all those folk resenting people with disabilities getting an extra tenner!

I got mine