£10 Christmas bonus.

[recklessruby]

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.

I get zero from them all through the year.

I lost my job thanks to my RA and Fibro making life unbearable. I had to go to court to fight for my PIP when some twat decided to take it off me - thank God they reinstated it, but I had to fight for a year to get it back.

My ‘bonus’ will be spent on my lovely OH - who supports me and our family every day. There isn’t anything left for treats, so I will buy him something nice for Christmas - haven’t got much else to contribute.

While I don't begrudge it to anyone on benefits (I genuinely hope you do manage to get a treat out of it) it's made me feel shit finding this out. I will be working over Christmas, have a strictly limited budget, for Christmas and life in general and my employer offers sweet fuck all, as do so many in my industry. I get a bit of tax credits and as far as I'm aware they don't come with a bonus (never have before) so it's made me feel even less appreciated now for leaving my DD over Christmas period to be at work, and not just by my employer and some of the arsehole customers I know I'll have to deal with, but by the country in general.

Well my severely disabled son has never been, and will never be able, to work and requires 24 hour support, but he has received £10 Christmas bonus for the last twenty years on top of his disability benefits - forgive me for not thinking he is luckier than you.

excited it doesn’t feel right to apply for another grant. We were really grateful to be helped out the first time and I wouldn’t want to ask again as I feel there might be other people who need help and the funds can only help so many people. Especially as the deposits and adaptions for WAVs can add up to over £5000 for those that need them.
We have up to 18 months left on our lease extension which is more than enough time for us to get our deposit together

I got my £10 Carers Allowance bonus and DS' £10 DLA bonus this week. DS wants to have a go at buying Christmas presents (he's 9) so I've given it to him and DH is taking him shopping tomorrow, he thinks £20 is megabucks and says he's going to buy me a diamond ring

The grants are there to help people that struggle to find such a large sum. You have been accepted before, because you needed it! You deserve it, just as much as other people do!
You have to put your family first. Your just too kind ❤

My mum get hers last week and her £10 extra in her pension. She is going to give it to her cleaner as she is a marvel!

It's really staggeringly self centred to actually say that hearing people with disabilities get a whole £10 extra at Christmas "makes you feel shit" and "even less appreciated".

So. It makes you "feel shit" that with disabilities severe enough to be awarded PIP, get the equivalent of less than 3p a fucking day extra, all at once at Christmas. I'm so sorry for you, how hard it must be hearing about our amazing luck and entitlement to free money. Your poor hurt feelings. Really we should be more sensitive to how shit you are feeling about our disability benefits

You really have to be breathtakingly self centred to come out with something like that, and then whine that everyone's being mean to you and you didn't mean it like that. You fucking said it - so own it! And really think about why the vast majority of people took exception to you complaining about this in such a selfish, resentful and bitter way.

Well, it makes me feel shit to hear that someone else feels shit because I get a whole extra 2p a day as a bonus for being disabled for a whole year. So am I now the most miserable - do I win your race to the bottom in the Who Has More Of A Shit Life And Doesn't Even Get Free Money competition?

Actually I don't think I can have as much as a shit life as I'm not the type of person to whine "it's unfair I don't get £10 too even though I'm not disabled" and then quickly say "but of course I don't begrudge you getting it, it's just I want it too".

Bloody hell.

Thanks Miljah... it’ll last me a week. I have to be sober at night in care I am required to stop DS from self-harming. Good think is, he now wakes me at 4am to tell me and then I can spend 2 hours trying to talk him down and back in to bed.

Wow absolutely gobsmacked that people could be jealous of someone with a disability severe enough to receive PIP or DLA hearing that they receive the 'huge' bonus of £10.

Personally I would rather be healthy and fit and able as no doubt or those disabled or sick people who qualify for the extra £10 once a year.

What type of society have we become to sink to the level of moaning that some people who are sick/disabled qualify for a £10 bonus.... wish the moaners and the jealous could walk in the shoes of those less fortunate for at least a day.

*rather be fit and able than disabled.... I wish some of the moaners would actually think before they moan....

disability bashing appears to be 'the thing' for some these days

What I wouldn’t give to NOThave to need my pip or Xmas bonus

Well I'm sure my 29 year old son with Downs syndrome who will never be independent, needs constant support and help and struggles to help people to understand his speech would rather be able to live a normal life like his brothers than receive this generous £10 bonus. I can't believe how mean spirited and lacking in understanding some people are.

It’s blow ILoveFoood’s tiny little brain so know some of us are disabled AND are employed.

we get it 4 times,2 for the kids dla and 2 for carers allowance

we also get the warm home front scheme and this week we got 80 of that for gas and the £10 bonus for dla each so the extra 20 went on gas as its -3-6 her at the mo

so ive £100 in gas

My £10 got swallowed up in the bills. My PIP was cut this year and I'm in the process of going to a tribunal. Despite saying on the letter that I have clearly deteriorated, the fact that I can drive means I don't need high rate mobility. Without a blue badge I have to use a regular space and can't get out the car properly and then struggle to walk, shop and walk back.

So I will be stuck at home instead. Because we live too far away for me to try and walk.

Yeah, you envy me that £10! I spend all day at home, cold. Because we can't afford to have the heating on all day long. So I wear a hat and fluffy socks and often go back to bed.

Living it up eh?

mycats

Contact your local council, they can also issue blue badges. DH was given an OT assessment for his.

@Buswankeress

it's made me feel even less appreciated now for leaving my DD over Christmas period to be at work

You want to be appreciated by the government for going to work?!

Are people really entitled enough to feel they're doing society a favour by going to work?!

Italian I'll contact them. This area you need a parking permit alongside the blue badge (which you pay for) to park in the council car parks with the badge. I had such a hassle trying to sort it when I had the HR but I will tackle it after Xmas. Literally can't face dealing with anything else right now. I can't get the therapy I need for my MH, my physical health will only deteriorate and I feel like I have to justify myself endlessly!

I even had some woman say very loudly to her friend while looking at me 'oh look at her, no fucking way she's disabled! Just another one at it'.

If I hadn't been in so much pain then I would have spoken to her but life is so incredibly tiring.

Universal Credit recipients don’t get it now. £10 ffs! Can’t believe the government are so bastard tight.

This thread is so shocking... I said pages back that the 'bonus' should be more like £1000 than £10. I stand by that; if people who are disabled are spending their 'bonus' on gas, or bank charges, maybe we should give them more appropriate funding all year round so they dont struggle, or give them a 'bonus' which actually enables them to make a difference to their lives? (sorry for calling people 'they'!)

In context; my mum died on Nov 1. Today I got a letter saying that they will still pay her £300 winter fuel allowance because she qualified for one week in the month prior to her death - that seems stupid to me, she's dead and therefore in no need of extra heating!

This thread is unbearable. Absolutely shameful some of these comments.

Sorry you feel that way @Buswankeress , I'll swap you my life limiting illness and then you can't get a free tenner deal ??