£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 PIP- have done since I was 16, for epilepsy and had no idea we get a bonus😅 mine goes into my mums account though as I'm 19 and then she gives it to me .

My doctor only recently told me that with epilepsy I'm eligible for a free bus/travel card as I don't drive and that my prescriptions are free! No one else has ever told me before (even when we asked the pharmacists if epilepsy warrants a medical exemption card- it does! And they never said yes)😡

As said above Buswankeress on a disability group I'm on there are hundreds that work and get pip. It's there to help with the extra expense being chronically ill brings with it. It's not until you actually write down all the things you struggle with that you realise that you could actually be awarded.
If it's chronic pain you have problems with then you could pay a cleaner to help, buy a lightweight vacuum, get some disability aids to make your life more bearable.
Have a proper read up on it and then decide if you should apply. It's not a pleasant process by any means but if it may be worthwhile.

@buswankerrs your commenting that you 'feel like shit' finding out that we get a £10 bonus and you don't. The thread is specifically asking what people are going to do with their £10?!
Why comment in the first place if you are not resentful?
You don't get the £10, this is for people that do??

@Philomensapie Christmas bonus? Is it just from the DWP? Do those of us on tax credits get one from HMRC, or are we penalised for, you know, working?’

Are you joking?

recklessruby

I didn't want to stir up shit by making this thread btw. It was meant to be pretty light hearted.

absolute bollocks

Buswankeress People are talking about PiP, not ESA. Have you tried to apply for PiP if you struggle so much?

I’m treating myself to eye ointment for a huge stye that’s just come up on my eyelid and some hemorrhoid cream. Let’s hope I don’t get the two tubes mixed up!

@Bluesmartiesarebest

What's the stye treatment Blue? I need it!

Do those of us on tax credits get one from HMRC, or are we penalised for, you know, working?

You're no more "penalised" than I am for working at a job that pays so well that I don't qualify for (or need) tax credits. I pay more tax so you don't have to. I don't see a problem with that and certainly don't see it as being penalised. It's how a civilised nation takes care of one and other.

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.

Why would you have to do any of that? If you are in chronic pain and struggling on a day to day basis you will be eligible to apply for pip even if you carry on working full time.

Pip is to help you make life easier not worse. Get the forms, research, fill them in. They will say yes or they will say no - you have nothing to lose by applying. I'm chronically arthritic, if you want help with the forms pm me. I'm not Ill but I have restricted mobility and constant pain. Thankfully my pip assessor was fine, I had no idea I was "bad enough" to get it but I did.

I'll happily swap my child's £10 for her to not be severely disabled and never being able to live an independent life.

I’m treating myself to eye ointment for a huge stye that’s just come up on my eyelid and some hemorrhoid cream. Let’s hope I don’t get the two tubes mixed up

Yeah don't get those 2 mixed up.

We're definitely scraping the barrel now with checking our neighbours bowl doesn't have more than is aren't we going by this thread?

Enjoy your tenner OP. My son got one as well in his dla. It'll go on the bowling pot I think as he really likes doing that

New leggings as my prosthetic leg rips holes in them after a couple of wears.

@ExcitedForChristmas18

I clicked on the title of "£10 Christmas Bonus" and then was surprised (please note that says surprised NOT resentful!!) That this is something the DWP do because of the utter horror stories you read about how the disabled and those who care for them are treated.
Yes I did comment that it made me feel like shit as in sad that there's not similar for people also in horrible situations, like mine. I also qualified that with saying I don't resent those who are getting it because I don't. However others seem to have not wanted to acknowledge that bit, or the repeated bits I've posted about not being resentful - I have continued posting to defend myself at being jumped all over for something I didn't actually say and don't feel.
Other posters have said things like being penalised for working because they don't get this, and similar, but yet it's me that's being continually targeted. As my original message was obviously lost in translation as it were, I tried to further explain and then repeat the fact I didn't say what I'm being judged for. It seems to no avail though doesn't it because I'm still being accused of being resentful.
It seems I'm not allowed to feel unhappy that I don't get a little bit of acknowledgement in tough circumstances - that doesn't make me resentful to those who do though, that's just been added by others.

This had all developed from other posters jumping on me for my post. I have just defended my original post trying to get across I didn't, haven't and don't resent anything.

For the henious crime of saying that, on an open forum, I am apparently resentful to disabled people getting a tenner, rude, obnoxious and was offered erm, assistance to feel what it's like to be disabled.

You know I've been roasted once before for getting a 'free house' (social housing) and 'free money' (tax credits to this level of nastiness- despite working. And why? Because I recieve benefits.

It's utterly bizarre that I've now been roasted for feeling sad that I don't recieve a bit more help when I need it by people who by their very nature advocate help where it's needed - and why? Because I work.

Thank you to those who are suggesting help, I am going from what I was told by a benefit advisor about 18 months ago, but with all the changes, UC, cuts and people far worse than me refused, and the benefits advice I got, I didn't think I could apply for PIP - yes maybe it's worth looking into. So thank you for that.

I'm going now because I really didn't want this to turn out this way, and it would seem minds have been made up - even though not one of my posts says I resent the people getting this payment.

Blue apparently pile cream is excellent on eyes, makes you look years younger adds pile cream to list of extravagant expenditure of £10 Christmas bonus

What so that makes all those horror stories not as bad now, because we get a £10 bonus at christmas????!!!!
Everyone like me that's disabled, and gets stared at constantly for looking like a freak, the abuse I have received, getting followed around supermarkets just to look at my injuries a bit better, jokes being made about me that I can hear..it's not that bad, its all worth it for my £10 Christmas bonus!
What a disgraceful thing to say!!!!!!

motoko I hope you were able to treat yourself

I agree that begrudging people £10 is pretty low

I get a work bonus and my ds gets a DLA bonus. And I got a letter to tell me.

Our bonus? Buying him a new tablet after his Dad dropped his by accident.

He would rather spend his tenner on some match attax cards. Which I may just do as well.

theoryofmould

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 know. I’ve been there. Sadly I couldn’t work, but had to. As in, I often couldn’t actually get to or be at work during a flare, but I couldn’t quit as there was nothing there to catch me. It’s horrible. At that time it’d have taken so much stress off my plate to be able to not work for a while and I’d have been much, much better off on benefits (as I wasn’t getting paid anything due to running out of sick pay). It’s so hard.

Why would you have to do any of that? If you are in chronic pain and struggling on a day to day basis you will be eligible to apply for pip even if you carry on working full time.

I so wish that was true. But it simply isn’t. I’ve been there. In absolute agony, every day, unable to get to work, dosed up to the hilt on morphine every day, and I was denied and then appealed and denied and appealed and denied.

It wasn’t possible for me to get any help despite so much medical evidence. I’m astounded by the number of people who have been deemed eligible for PIP, can’t believe millions of people are in a worse way than I was then. I’m still pretty bitter as maybe I wouldn’t have had to become bankrupt.

@Chloe84 golden eye ointment or drops for a stye. I bathe the eye with warm water 3 times a day but the ointment seems to help me heal faster because my immune system isn’t as good as it should be.

@Theoryofmold will the eyeointment make my saggy butt disappear too?

@ExcitedForChristmas18

I'm sorry you really have lost me now. I truly don't understand how being surprised that the DWP give this bonus, considering that they generally treat people applying for, on and being reviewed for PIP or DLA terribly, is an awful thing to say?

I am surprised because they are renowned for cutting people off that clearly need the money.

I am surprised because they keep trying to cut the number of people on benefits despite it being inhumane.

I am surprised this happens because of those reasons! How is that a disgraceful thing to say?

I don't say anywhere that this £10 bonus makes it all ok??? I don't know where that came from at all I said

I clicked on the title of "£10 Christmas Bonus" and then was surprised (please note that says surprised NOT resentful!!) That this is something the DWP do because of the utter horror stories you read about how the disabled and those who care for them are treated.

I'm surprised the DWP give a bonus to anyone at Christmas because of their utterly shit treatment of most people who apply for, and get these benefits.

I don't understand how you've translated that into "all those horror stories are not that bad now because of a £10 bonus"

But then that'd seem the gist of anything I post wouldn't it? Make it up if it's not there to jump on. I'm sorry that you've experienced what you have from people, but I haven't and didn't say that I think it's ok now because you get a £10 bonus. You've either misread or just literally making it up as you go along now to tie in with what you have decided about me.

I utterly give up. I could type fairies and unicorns and someone would take it the wrong way or just make up their own version right now on this thread.

Vietnamese it might be worthwhile app,Yong again andusing Fightback to do your forms for you. Apparently the way your form is worded makes a huge difference. You've nothing to lose either applying again.

I'm in the fortunate position of being able to give mine to charity. It was received with my state pension.