£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 can't understand the £10 bonus being given to disabled people on benefits at all.

It's been £10 since the early 1970's when it began. Should be £100 now!

Enjoy your tenner OP, and I hope you have a lovely Christmas.

To the people who have a job that doesn't pay a bonus, don't resent the OP (and people like her,) save your vitriol and resentment for your employer!

There really are some rude and obnoxious posters on here. Spitting venom at disabled people on benefits for having a fucking TENNER, and then pearl clutching with comments like 'oh pick on ME then!'

Don't be so bloody rude and obnoxious, then people WON'T 'scold' you! Not that hard is it?!

I think it's a good thing to give a Christmas bonus/gift. £10 is hardly a huge amount but if it is appreciated then I'm happy for my tax to help cover it.

Except there has been next to no resentment at all for the bonus.

I'm standing by my posts for anyone that has replied thinking I'm "horrid".

Your initial posts came across as containing obvious resentment, bitterness and jealousy towards people on benefits getting a £10 bonus. They really did. Life isn't a race to the bottom, just because you think people should be more miserable than you as you work and are still miserable

Do I think employees should be treated miles better and paid decent wages? Absolutely. I would like them to get paid a proper living wage so companies don't get away with relying on the government to top people up to the most basic standard of living/just existing. Then perhaps the government could start on increasing things like carers allowance - £64.60 a week, you have to spend at least 35 hours caring (vast majority spend more) - that's £1.85 an hour.

The difference is I don't go round thinking well carers get £1.85 an hour, my DH can't claim it as he earns over £100 a week, that's so unfair and I feel resentful of people who are entitled to it. That would be madness as well as uncharitable.

What would be miles better than being resentful of someone getting an extra £10 just because you don't, would be to stop arguing about shit like this and look at the bigger picture. The government are screwing us all and sowing seeds of dissension amongst us - arguing over stuff like this instead of realising we are all being shafted. Divide and rule - always works!

I did think afterwards I sounded like I was actually threatening to come and really break peoples' legs which I really wasn't and I do apologise if this was needlessly aggressive. I really am struggling and fed up atm for all sorts of reasons which are actually making me feel bitter and resentful myself (oh the irony) I miss my old life and the choices I had and the ability I had to change things and make my life better even if in a small way.

Perhaps those of us struggling have a natural tendency to feel resentful of others we perceive as "luckier" and I am guilty of it too I suppose. I'm certainly guilty of squabbling here despite me saying we shouldn't be doing it

And I thought this was meant to be a light hearted thread 😂 I bought myself some sweet chilli sensations and a nice chocolate bar. They’re currently hidden in my drawer so I don’t have to share

@heresme

Except there has been next to no resentment at all for the bonus.

Are you kidding?! You must have been reading a different thread to the rest of us!!!

It's only for people on disability benefits (you know, because your body giving up on you is incredibly expensive process - as well as painful&demeaning) but don't let that get in the way of your scrounger rhetoric ay?

Don't worry, the scum on JSA/IS/HB.. or UC won't get an extra penny! Some may not even be able to afford any food or heat this Christmas.
Justice is restored!

@Buswankeress to ease your resentment how about I give you my £10 and you can also have my cancer? Happy Christmas to you!

My son gets DLA because he has autism. We spent it on 5 new pairs of gloves from primark, because he has lost 4 pairs in as many weeks as the other kids keep taking them from him I must have put the entire class in gloves by now.

I got mine in June a couple of years ago so I’d better wait until I see it before I go mad at the shops. Sending out letters to everyone is really wasteful though in the age of electronic communication. There should be an option to receive communication via email to reduce the cost of this bonus.

I got mine last week. I put it in my savings account in the hope that I could put a bit away a week and have some heating in the new year, but DH had to take a day off sick with food poisoning and it went on electric as he doesn't get sick pay.

So now we freeze for a little longer

Cheers to those who begrudge us disabled burdens an extra tenner. Hopefully you won't ever be in the same situation.

To the people who have a job that doesn't pay a bonus, don't resent the OP (and people like her,) save your vitriol and resentment for your employer!

Got a comment on just about every page of this thread saying I don't resent anyone getting this tenner, rather I'm sad that there's nothing similar to support someone in my position who also struggles. But as usual people read what they want rather than what's there.

There really are some rude and obnoxious posters on here. Spitting venom at disabled people on benefits for having a fucking TENNER, and then pearl clutching with comments like 'oh pick on ME then!' hmm

No pearl clutching, or in fact spitting of venom at anyone. I have a response to a post directed at me in exactly the same manner it was directed at me in. But certain posters are reading stuff into my posts that aren't there, and they're the ones reacting with venom. I said if it makes you feel better, crack on as I was obviously being made an example of for something I didn't actually say.

Don't be so bloody rude and obnoxious, then people WON'T 'scold' you! wink Not that hard is it?!

I said I feel shit there's nothing similar for people in my position too, not that those getting it shouldn't. That I feel shit there's no recognition from either my employer OR the state - both of which I get funds from, for the shit position myself and likely many others are in too. Quite how that makes me 'rude' and 'obnoxious' I don't know. I'm sure you'll be along to twist it though so that it would seem so.

It's so bloody sad that although I actually support this, I'm being judged and jumped all over for saying that I wish there were something similar for someone like me, who despite working does struggle with illness and finances too, because I don't meet some bloody criteria for PIP or other illness benefits except SSP which I'd only get for 28 weeks then I'd be out of a job and unable to get anything.
Just because I do work doesn't mean I automatically hate anyone on benefits, and resent this bonus, which as I've said is woefully low compared to what's actually needed.

But some posters have just decided that's how I think and feel because I work. That's just as bad as calling anyone on benefits a scrounger and that attitude I do resent. A lot.

Yes my dd's bonus will pay for the parking for her next treatment at hospital. Happy days.

@Buswankeress are you 100% sure you're not eligible for any help/support? You do sound like you're struggling.
The system is set up so that people fail, you've only got to Google PIP to see how many disabled claimants struggle and have to go to tribunal. It's disgusting.

@nevermindthebollox

Can you point me to where I actually say that I resent this? Because I haven't.
Sounds more like people are actually resenting me because I say there should be similar for those also struggling with health and finances and on low incomes despite working. Apparently having a job no matter how hard I struggle to do it, or how much sweet fuck all I'd get if I gave up gives people carte blanche to tell me I'm resentful of those getting this bonus and accuse me of all sorts.
There's just no reasoning with some people.

Buswankeress have you applied for pip yourself? It's not means tested so you've nothing to lose by applying.

I spent my £10 on some more mugs for my hot drinks that keep me warm during the cold weather, save me from having to wash up so often.

@WhoTookTheChristmasCookie

I honestly don't know. I'd have to go on long term SSP which would set me back on the road to debt, then be dismissed apparently. Then apply for out of work sickness benefits and see if they come through. It's probably inevitable it'll go that way one day, because there will be a point where I totally can't work, but tbh I'm scared to do it, and keeping going as long as I can to hopefully see my daughter into employment. I'm just too scared to go down that road until my employer says basically, enough is enough, for fear I'll have made myself jobless and be told I'm not ill enough and then I'll have given up a job with no hope of getting another and no entitlement.
But that's another story, it is what it is.
It still doesn't mean I resent anyone for anything they get, but apparently I can't feel sad that I don't get similar support.
Dear God, and the people on here are accusing me of being resentful.

@nevermindthebollox Merry Christmas, all the best.

I think anyone who resents those claiming getting £10 extra in December are nasty and spiteful. 10 fucking quid.

Enjoy your bonuses everyone - it's not much, and should be more, if you are able to treat yourselves.

For those jealous and annoyed people will be getting £10....get a fucking life, you are pathetic.
I don't claim benefits nor have i had a pay rise (low earner too!) or bonus in my profession but I could always go onto benefits to get a free tenner?! Or suffer disability!
Pathetic, I hope you're ashamed of yourselves or maybe not as your to selfish and narcissistic

@Buswankeress you shouldn't have to lose your job to apply?
It's not means-tested, nor an out of work benefit. You've got nothing to lose by trying at least; the worst they can say is no.

You'll be able to spot the people that have had the bonus, they will be the ones with the extra 1/4 bag of shopping to maybe even treat the children.... Disgusting

wow some awful posts.
my adult child would much rather work and not be so disabled that they need 24/7 care. ffs its 10 pounds.
I can't believe working people are jealous of her getting 10 pounds.
(all her benefits are taken bare 24.50 to contribute to her care) so that 10 pounds is lovely.

I have 2 autistic DC. One tenner will go towards DS new school shoes which he has picked apart due to anxiety.

My DD will have hers go towards a new screen for her iPad that she relies on (it has taught her to speak) but accidentally broke whilst having a meltdown.

I forgot about the £10,I think mine shall go towards a tube of voltarol being as I seem to be going through tons of the stuff because none of my pain meds are helping any more.

I don't know what our 2DC that are disabled will spend they're bonus on but I'm sure what ever it is it will be something they'll love.