£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.

I know Gilead!

I think the bonus is a lovely idea. Brings a little bit of joy at this time of year.

Wow yeah, we are all living the high life here on our extra tenners.

Here's another thing for folk to get bitter about - some councils give a rent reduction on council houses at Christmas (ours did, think it was a free week!).

I'm planning on buying some extra socks with my precious tenner.

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.

i am really poorly with my type 1 diabetes, struggling in to work daily, not got a penny to my name so yeah, i am a bit meh that i don't get a bonus. hey ho.

Do people genuinely feel resentment that people who have disabilities severe enough to be awarded PIP are paid an extra £10 at Christmas once a year? Seriously?

Well I can make you feel better by telling you mine is going towards the cost of getting to my hospital appointment next week. To enrage resentful people even further i also get a free bus pass but I can't get to this hospital without a taxi to the bus stop. I would actually love to spend it on my DCs but being disabled is really fucking expensive.

Do people really think I wouldn't be prefer to still be working (and yes, paying tax) and earning enough money to treat my DC instead of being (genuinely) relieved that I can get to a hospital appointment with the extra £10 Christmas bonus? Otherwise I might have cancelled it so I can spend the taxi money on the DC.

People don't know how lucky they are to be so ignorant that they resent shit like this.

Jesus Christ. People resentful and jealous of those on disability benefits getting a tenner a Christmas. Stop embarrassing yourselves.

My household has a member that gets PIP.
I am in charge of finances and this is the first Xmas we have had PIP so I knew nothing of this bonus.
In light of that I’m going to buy ten selection boxes, wrap them and give them to a local charity that helps homeless people.
Wasn’t expecting it so pay it forward.......to those who have so much less than me and mine.

I get a free week of rent but I still pay it so I am in credit for when I apply for UC.

DD asked me to use it to buy Christmas chocolate for the food bank.

Folk pissing and moaning about the bonus can piss off. People with disabilities on average are 570 quid a month worse off. I’m sure every one of them would happily hand back the tenner if it meant they didn’t have to face financial hardship for the rest of the year.

Jesus. What is wrong with people.

No resentment from me, nobody chooses to be on benefits despite what the affluent privileged of the Tory heartlands choose to believe.

I’m happy to swap my 2 disabled children for the haters NT children so they can beniffit from the extra £10? Any takers?

My local county Councillors have just awarded themselves a pay increase that works out to be about 10K p/a.

But no no, lets whinge about a tenner to people on PIP.

This year it should have been £100 plus to give people some cushion for when UC kicks in.

Wish I got a christmas bonus, or even a thank you for your hard work.

Maybe you should work harder then

Shocked at people being resentful of disabled people getting a tenner! Do you not think we'd be working if we could?

I won't be getting that tenner as, fifteen months into a life-changing illness I'm still fighting to get PIP and waiting for my tribunal date.

I don't think Snowy or Buswankeress were for the slightest moment begrudging any benefit the disabled may get.

Seriously think it was more to highlight poor working conditions and lack of thought by employers these days - which of course is a totally different matter. One I can sympathise with, but does not in any way make me have any negative comment towards anyone receiving £10 for Christmas by the government. It's precious little in view of cost of living and cut backs.

Point is for some employers to start thinking about their staff and valuing them a bit more - another story

really some industries just don't do bonuses or thank yous....it's nothing to do with how hard you work.

I've never, ever had a bonus. They just don't happen in my industry.

I do get a thank you at my current organisation and this year it was an extra days leave at Christmas but that's never happened before. At my previous workplace I never got a thank you , no matter how I hard worked.

MakeAHouseAHome Thu 13-Dec-18 11:48:02
What is this bonus... you actually get a 'Christmas bonus' if you get benefits!?

I'd like a bonus, I don't even get a pay rise for the length of the contracts I work on, (Been on this current one over 2 years) I have to wait til I move projects and negotiate a better rate each time.

We got an extra £10 with my son's DLA. If it makes those who are annoyed feel any better we don't cost you anything in schooling because the LA cannot adequately provide him with the education he is legally entitled to, so I have to home educate. Hope that makes you feel better! Will probably spend the extra money in Poundland for extra art supplies for him.

OrchidInTheSun Thu 13-Dec-18 11:51:38
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

I take back my pithy comment, I can't begrudge disabled people a tenner. It should really be more so people can get a decent treat.

really have you ever had a job as you seem to have confused ideas about how bonuses are given?

Mince pies and pringles. Or ear plugs while we wait for a sensory assessment.