DWP benefit check claimants must make before Christmas bonus is paid in December

The taxation escaped Christmas Bonus has been a happening since 1972, and it presently sits astatine £10 - which is the aforesaid arsenic it was erstwhile it was archetypal introduced implicit 50 years ago

Millions of radical request to marque a cheque present earlier the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays it's Christmas bonus adjacent month.

The DWP volition erstwhile again present a Christmas bonus to millions of payment claimants adjacent month. The taxation escaped Christmas Bonus has been a happening since 1972, and it presently sits astatine £10 - which is the aforesaid arsenic it was erstwhile it was archetypal introduced implicit 50 years ago.

The bonus is fixed to radical claiming definite benefits during the "qualifying week," which this twelvemonth is from December 2 until December 8 - successful conscionable a fewer days. One of the astir communal misconceptions astir the Christmas bonus is that each DWP and HMRC benefits get the money, but this is not the case.

This means that if they privation to person the cash, they volition request to cheque whether they are claiming 1 of the qualifying benefits by the extremity of adjacent week. Universal Credit - which has astir 6.7million claimants crossed the UK - is not portion of the database truthful those claiming won't get the Christmas bonus.

The afloat database of 23 benefits benefits which suffice for the bonus include:

• Adult Disability Payment
• Armed Forces Independence Payment
• Attendance Allowance
• Carer's Allowance
• Carer Support Payment
• Child Disability Payment
• Constant Attendance Allowance (paid for concern injuries oregon War Pensions )
• Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance
• Incapacity Benefit astatine the semipermanent rate
• Industrial Death Benefit (for widows oregon widowers)
• Mobility Supplement
• Pension Age Disability Payment
• Pension Credit - the warrant element
• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• State Pension
• Severe Disablement Allowance
• Unemployability Supplement oregon Allowance (paid for concern injuries oregon War Pensions )
• War Disablement Pension astatine State Pension age
• War Widow's Pension
• Widowed Mother's Allowance
• Widowed Parent's Allowance
• Widow's Pension

Alongside claiming the benefit, you volition besides request to beryllium surviving successful - oregon beryllium an "ordinarily resident" successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man oregon Gibraltar during the archetypal week of December. The Christmas bonus is paid automatically and the outgo should amusement up arsenic "DWP XB" connected your slope statements.

It's important to cognize that couples tin each get a £10 Christmas bonus if they each get a qualifying benefit. The DWP says those who haven’t claimed their State Pension - truthful person deferred it - and are not entitled to 1 of the different qualifying benefits, volition not person the bonus. If you’re portion of a joined couple, successful a civilian concern oregon surviving unneurotic arsenic specified and you some get 1 of the qualifying benefits, you volition each get a Christmas bonus payment. If your spouse oregon civilian spouse does not get 1 of the qualifying benefits, they whitethorn inactive get the Christmas bonus if some of the pursuing apply:

• You’re some implicit State Pension property by the extremity of the qualifying week
• Your spouse oregon civilian spouse was besides contiguous (or ‘ordinarily resident’) successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, European Economic Area (EEA) state oregon Switzerland during the qualifying week

And either:

• You’re entitled to an summation of a qualifying payment for your spouse oregon civilian partner
• The lone qualifying payment you’re getting is Pension Credit