£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.

Liketoshop the carers on here will also be working day and night over Christmas and New Year.

I did work full time with a disability for years and didn't receive help so I m not blasting genuinely ill people struggling.
My issue is the people who have no idea what it's like and then begrudge a £10 bonus at Christmas.
It took 9 months for me to get PIP so no one should give up if they get rejected at first.

I could be wrong but I’m Ireland I think you get double your usual benefit as a Christmas bonus

Rita thank you! I've enjoyed reading what others used their bonus for too.

I know you’re not blasting anyone OP, I believe you started the thread with good intentions. But what you said, about how people should hang their heads in shame until they’d walked a mile in your shoes is exactly the sort of reductive ignorant nonsense that’s been spouted off throughout the entire thread and it needs addressing overall. Nobody here knows the exact circumstances of what someone else is going through. There has absolutely been an attitude from several posters that anyone grumbling that they don’t get any help is being a privileged wealthy twat who has never known hardship and is being begrudging for the sake of it. Whereas I think it’s fine for someone to express how this thread has made them feel when it has highlighted to them exactly what support they don’t get, that they desperately need.

Ours was spent this morning on coffee, milkshake and cake. The cold weather meant no one else was out that early so ds had a nice peaceful time drinking, eating and admiring the decorations.

one glad they could help. If things don't go your way and you need to appeal, feel free to PM me and I can give you a few tips. In no way exhaustive, but just a few things that make the process a bit easier to understand. And good luck xx

Madein1995 thank you so much - I will let you know what happens! You're very kind and I appreciate it very much

Spikeyball - that sounds just lovely

Oh my goodness ... people begrudging some of the very poorest and most vulnerable in our society a measly extra tenner at Christmas. This country has been consumed by whataboutery bastards. The fact that other poor and vulnerable groups aren’t getting help is a fucking scandal. What it isn’t is a reason to begrudge those who are. Public sector? Gold plated pensions. Bastards. The disabled? Load of work shy scroungers. Bastards. Children in poverty with inadequate housing? Feckless parents. Bastards. Jesus fucking wept.

liketoshop carers don’t get time off over Christmas either. At least when your shift ends you get to go home away from work, pit your feet up and have some sleep. Carers and disabled people don’t have that luxury.

when do you actually see your own children? By my calculations that doesn’t leave much time for your own children to have any meaningful contact with you.Aren’t you too exhausted to have meaningful engagement with your children when you are actually home with them

I am not supporting Edwin and her attitude towards the Xmas bonus but I do want to pick up on this.

Some of us have no choice but to cut short time with our own children because the buck stops with us and no one else. I am fully aware my parenting is less than perfect - but as far as I’m concerned, I am prioritising and doing the best I can. We have a roof over our heads, we have food on the table, clothes on our backs etc. It takes everything I have to provide all that. Everything. I am not a shit person, nor a shit parent, because of it.

@edwinbear I'm shocked that someone who volunteers with such vulnerable people has the attitude you do

I can almost guarantee that I do more to help the homeless than you do. I've just set up a charity that provides a home to 15 vulnerable women. I volunteer at a shelter, I serve meals at a soup kitchen. I provide advice, support, sort their benefits etc. I fight for them every day. I offer them love and compassion. I've cried and raged at the injustice

And yet I do that whilst also being disabled myself and benefiting from the £10 bonus and not judging other people

ohreally Edwin was claiming to be out 6.45am until 7pm every day as an investment banker and then spending some of her nights at a homeless shelter until at least 2.30am and on top of that she is a carer for somebody 300 miles away so that’s a good few hours driving on top of caring for at least 35 hours a week. I find all of that combined to be highly highly unlikely unless she is an alien and can triple normal time. Therefore my comments about when she sees her children were sarcastic and mocking because she clearly was being untruthful about some of it.
I have worked a full time job in long hours and had children which I didn’t see as much of as I liked but I certainly wouldn’t make stuff up on a thread which are clearly impossible and only intend to make myself look superior next to a vulnerable group of people.

Very unlikely indeed unless she’s being a tad economic with the truth.

So, as you work for a government agency why do you get a handout and we do not?
As a carer I have to do at least 35 hours caring. For £64 pounds. So given our comparative hourly rate, can you really get such a bug up your arse over £10 a year, so not even £1 a month "bonus"??

If everyone on carers allowance went on strike and handed responsibility for that care over to the government, the country would be absolutely fucked within a month.

The £10 is to keep us sweet so we don't do that.

As a carer I have to do at least 35 hours caring. For £64 pounds.

I was assessed by adult social services a few months ago. For 20 hours the cost was £400-ish. Not much difference is there....

Exactly. And I get the argument as I'm a carer for my son that I'd have to care for him anyway but most of my mum friends aren't up in the night to check o2 tubing and feeding their child through a tube at least 3 times a day. These are the kind of things that mean I don't work any more.

And fwiw I think it's a crying shame that people get bonuses of tens of thousands but there's no money in the pot to give nurses etc a Christmas bonus. The work medics do is some of the most important, life changing work anyone will ever do.

@Liketoshop my DH is my carer. He works 17 1/2 a day minimum when I'm having a 'good' day. On a bad day he is then up all night, lying next to me, watching me scream in pain throughout the whole night. He works 365 days a year. NOT ONE DAY OFF IN EIGHT YEARS!!!!!
He earns 51p an hour!! Would you prefer to swap with him and work for that?! You are bitter about that????!!!!

I'm the carer for DP, don't get carers allowance either. I spent five hours last night reversing a hypoglycaemic coma and ensuring stability. Let's assume I did receive CA for her. I wonder how much calling an ambulance, subsequent hospital monitoring and discharge would cost instead.

I don't get CA for her, because chronic unstable brittle diabetes (type 1), rheumatoid arthritis and blindness apparently don't get you PIP, despite reams of evidence and ticking their criteria...

There has been similar threads previous years and always gets same old response. You can learn a lot about human nature on here.

There is no way Edwin works in a homeless shelter. I have and any volunteer with that attitude would have been dealt with not by the other volunteers but by the guests. they have lived on their wits for years and Can smell bullshit a mile off