DWP to give one-off bonus payment to thousands before Christmas

The tax-free outgo volition rollout successful December (Image: Getty)

Thousands of UK households volition get a one-off bonus payment from the authorities conscionable successful clip for Christmas.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) volition contented a tax-free outgo of £10 to eligible households from adjacent month.

The Christmas Bonus is fixed to radical who are claiming definite benefits and is paid automatically to those who suffice successful the archetypal afloat week of December.

To suffice for bonus £10, you indispensable unrecorded oregon beryllium “ordinarily resident” successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man oregon Gibraltar during the qualifying week, which this twelvemonth is from December 2 to 8, 2024.

You indispensable beryllium receiving astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing benefits successful this qualifying week to beryllium eligible for the payment:

• Adult Disability Payment

• Armed Forces Independence Payment

• Attendance Allowance

• Carer’s Allowance

• Child Disability Payment

• Constant Attendance Allowance (paid nether Industrial Injuries oregon War Pensions schemes)

• Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (once the main signifier of the payment is entered aft the archetypal 13 weeks of claim)

• Disability Living Allowance

• Incapacity Benefit astatine the semipermanent rate

• Industrial Death Benefit (for widows oregon widowers)

• Mobility Supplement

• Pension Credit - the warrant element

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

• State Pension (including Graduated Retirement Benefit)

• Severe Disablement Allowance (transitionally protected)

• Unemployability Supplement oregon Allowance (paid nether Industrial Injuries oregon War Pensions schemes)

• War Disablement Pension astatine State Pension age

• War Widow’s Pension

• Widowed Mother’s Allowance

• Widowed Parent’s Allowance

• Widow’s Pension

If you haven’t claimed your State Pension and you’re not entitled to 1 of the different qualifying benefits past you won’t get a Christmas Bonus.

If you are a joined couple, successful a civilian partnership, oregon surviving unneurotic arsenic if you are, and you some person 1 of the supra qualifying benefits, past you volition each get a Christmas bonus outgo from the DWP.

If your spouse doesn’t get 1 of the qualifying benefits, they whitethorn inactive beryllium eligible for the outgo if some of the pursuing criteria 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

The DWP says you don’t request to assertion the bonus arsenic it volition beryllium paid automatically and won’t impact immoderate different benefits you get.

The £10 outgo volition beryllium sent straight to your slope relationship and should look arsenic ‘DWP XB’ connected your slope statement.

Anyone who thinks they are entitled to the Christmas bonus but hasn’t received it successful the archetypal week of December is advised to interaction the Jobcentre Plus office that deals with your payments oregon the Pension Service.