£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.

*FortniteIsTheNewCrack

Snowie and buswankeress I could come round and break your legs and give you a brain injury if you like so you can be lucky like me with my extra £10? I'm filled with fucking joy.*

Well if you read there posts they didn't even disparage the bonus .

Just because you are disabled doesn't mean you aren't horrid.

Yes Zoflora, I wasn't aware that it was just for people on disability benefits. DM worked until she lost her business, she's been claiming DLA since she knew it existed, DS1 has been claiming DLA since he was diagnosed at 5, he now claims PIP, he's too ill to even cook for himself.

Goat food x

I get 2 weeks rent free in my council house at Christmas however because I pay monthly and not 4 weekly I never get it. It just clears off my arrears. Which then build up and will get paid off in the 2 week rent free in July.

Enjoy your bonus.

I'm one of the few people I know who is actually GLAD to pay taxes. I genuinely believe in helping out people in society - it benefits everyone in many ways. I just wish that people didn't vote with their wallets so often, and could actually see how incredibly important taxes and public services are.

So - enjoy your ten quid, I just wish it was more.

DM has just said she'll buy "pants or wine or chocs or a book or nuffink."

Thank you @kissassangel it's nice to know, there are some decent people in this world!

Isn’t it paid to all OAPs? Including the Queen and elderly millionaires? That’s what is outrageous, not paying it to people who are on the breadline.
Take £10 away from every pensioner who doesn’t need it at Christmas and give £200 to everyone who does.

Excited I didn't know it was just for people on disability benefits. DS1 would love to work too. He'd love to have lungs that worked properly.

Vietnamese it's not really looking down on someone because they work. We'd just like to be able to work due to the fact many employers wouldn't touch us with a barge pole. Fluctuating diseases are a bastard because employers can't say, oh that's fine if you can't come to work for three weeks due to a flare. I am actually jealous of people who can work. I miss working and interacting. I leave the house on average once a week at the weekend when my husband is home. There's no malice in my jealousy, more a sense of grief that I'm not viewed as a valid member of society any more.

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?

I don’t begrudge it at all, and wish it was higher, say £25-£50? As for those in low paid work not getting anything... it shouldn’t be a race to the bottom. More should be done to support those on low pay - NMW has been increasing but the abuse of ZHC and draconian sickness policies need addressing urgently.

Poor OP, sounds like she started this as a light-hearted thread and instead it's turned in to the misery Olympics.

Isn’t it paid to all OAPs? Including the Queen and elderly millionaires? That’s what is outrageous, not paying it to people who are on the breadline. Take £10 away from every pensioner who doesn’t need it at Christmas and give £200 to everyone who does.

Interesting that it was the Tories who proposed this (not necessarily to increase funding to disabled) but Labour wanted to keep it!

I believe it's been abolished for universal credit claimants.

I bought a Mac and Cheese and a hazelnut hot chocolate from Costa with mine Merry Christmas

I'm one of the few people I know who is actually GLAD to pay taxes. I genuinely believe in helping out people in society - it benefits everyone in many ways. I just wish that people didn't vote with their wallets so often, and could actually see how incredibly important taxes and public services are.

Ditto

Hazelnut hot chocolate sounds amazing. I'm trying that next time I'm out!

@Vietnamese I don't look down my nose at anyone that works thank you very much.
But I do get very very angry when people that work, whinge about people like me being severely disabled.
I would much prefer to be healthy, in work and poor than be severely disabled, not able to leave my house for months on end, not able to give my children a hug because it triggers my pain being touched, and poor.
Which would you prefer?!

For those who are in receipt of Carer's Allowance and live in Scotland, if you qualify for the additional Carer's Supplement, that's expected to be paid tomorrow if you didn't know.
I think I'm going to try taking the kids to the local garden centre this weekend to treat us to some new Xmas lights

It's not people on normal benefits!! -Job seekers allowance!!

It's only those on DLA (Disability Living Allowance) or PIP (personal independence payment) - those with serious medical conditions that mean life is more difficult.

And you begrudge those?

@secondarymincepie yes it was meant to be light hearted. Guess I opened up a can of very big wiggly worms...

Ds got his with his DLA a couple of weeks ago, and we donated it to the local "cash for kids" appeal.
I got mine in my carers allowance this week, and I'm going to take ds to the chippy with it.

I don’t begrudge it at all, and wish it was higher, say £25-£50?

Given what it was originally for, if it's still for that same purpose it should be much closer to the extra week of payment it originally was. Especially when you consider how much less one week of benefit money buys you now compared to one week of pension money back when it was introduced.

@VietnameseCrispyFish

Thank you. I never said that I resented those who get it, or that they shouldn't, or are scroungers who don't want to work. I'm likely to be in that position one day in the not too distant future myself, but this is a kind of limbo at the moment, working, but not quite well enough to do a great job, and not ill enough to not work.

And you're right, there's nothing to catch me until my employer says enough is enough, or I'm forced to take sick leave until I'm dismissed.

There must be so many people in this situation too.

I don't begrudge anyone anything, I really don't.

Got mine last week. Bought food with it.