I Have Just Received My £10 Christmas Bonus.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Gordon.

[B00]

£10.00 more than what I got- enjoy :-)

[Tilly2]

Your time will come, Boo. :-)

[aelmpvw]

who's Gordon?

[gangesboy]

We have Ted to thank
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/6865057/Pensioners-10-Christmas-bonus-is-same-as-four-decades-ago.html

[Sam1960]

You could spoil yourself in here tilly ...
http://www.mrstillysdirect.co.uk/

[Tilly2]

I meant George, not Gordon. However, I see it was actually Ted.

[secsee1]

What an insult £10 goes nowhere these days, it's about time those in power started living in the real world like the rest of us!

[jennyjoan]

Well £10 on top of the £200 aint bad

[pastafreak]

That link mentions higher winter fuel payments(in 2009) of £250...ha!!! That didn't last long,and I'm sure the current payment of £200 is worth less also.

[douglas9401]

Hey there secsee, please forward any and all offensive tenners to me and I'll make sure they're disposed of.

[Mamyalynne]

Got mine too , will pay for one pressie - Ta, whoever.

[knittynora]

and don't forget when you reach 80 you get a whole 25p extra per week!

[cupid04]

How old do you have to be to get the £10. My OH said it was 85...

[marval]

I have got mine, can't get over the excitement.

[Mamyalynne]

Cupid

https://www.gov.uk/christmas-bonus/eligibility

[eanceoil]

Social Welfare recipients in Ireland always received an extra week as a bonus, with the austerity budgets that was stopped, in the last budget they agreed to pay 3/4 of the bonus for Christmas, so anyone on €200 received that plus €150 last week for Christmas.

[baza]

That will pay for the grandkids selection boxes.

[netibiza]

Hope mines in my bank after all they stopped the winter fuel allowance because when they did the temperatures here they included Ceuta and the Canaries which are obviously warm!

[Jackdaw33]

When the bonus was first introduced it was equivalent to a week's pension.

[Hopkirk]

When do I start getting mine?