UK households urged to make one check now to get DWP cash bonus

The DWP volition nonstop £10 Christmas bonus payments to households successful December (Image: Getty)

Households crossed the UK are urged to marque a elemental cheque to get a currency bonus from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The DWP is sending retired a £10 Christmas bonus payment to eligible homes adjacent week, but lone those claiming definite benefits volition qualify.

To get it, 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 2 to 8.

The qualifying week is present conscionable days distant truthful households volition request to cheque they are claiming the applicable payment by the extremity of adjacent week to get the Christmas bonus.

You indispensable beryllium getting astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing 23 benefits successful the qualifying week of December 2 to 8:

• Adult Disability Payment

• Armed Forces Independence Payment

• Attendance Allowance

• Carer’s Allowance

• Carer Support Payment

• 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 Age Disability Payment

• 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 are claiming immoderate of these successful the qualifying week the DWP volition nonstop the £10 bonus straight to your slope account.

The outgo is usually issued successful the archetypal afloat week of December and volition look connected your slope connection arsenic ‘DWP XB’.

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 a 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.