State pensioners to get bonus payment from DWP in days

State pensioners volition get a £10 Christmas bonus from the DWP (Image: Getty)

Millions of authorities pensioners crossed the UK volition get a Christmas bonus payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrong days.

The bonus is simply a one-off tax-free outgo of £10 that is paid to radical claiming definite benefits earlier Christmas.

The escaped £10 volition beryllium sent straight to your slope relationship by the DWP if you are eligible - truthful you don’t request to use - and volition look connected your slope connection arsenic ‘DWP XB’.

The DWP usually issues the outgo successful the archetypal afloat week of December, meaning it should onshore successful slope accounts adjacent week.

To get the bonus you indispensable live, oregon beryllium “ordinarily resident” successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man oregon Gibraltar, during the qualifying week, which this twelvemonth is from December 1 to 8.

You besides request to beryllium claiming the State Pension successful the qualifying week, oregon astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing benefits to beryllium eligible:

• 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)

• 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

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

If you’re married, successful a civilian partnership, oregon surviving unneurotic arsenic if you are, and you some person astatine slightest 1 of the supra qualifying benefits, past you volition each get the Christmas Bonus 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 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

If you deliberation you’re entitled to the £10 Christmas Bonus but you don’t person it successful the archetypal week of December past you should interaction the Jobcentre Plus office that deals with your payments oregon the Pension Service.