The tenner winter payment...

[sandyRoe]

I notice a tenner credited to my account. It must be my Christmas gift from the government. When this was first given out it would have bought a family Christmas dinner and enough left over for a box at the local pantomime. NOw it won't even buy a bottle of wine.
How much would it need to be now to have kept pace with inflation? I think it was first given out during Jim Callaghan's time as PM, in the late 70s.

[Booldawg]

what tenner? how do you get that!

[friedgreentomato]

Thats a tenner more than i have received from the government this year so perhaps you should be grateful!!

[emmie]

it's the Christmas bonus..

[chaptazbru]

My elderly parents get this when the weather drops below a certain temperature.

[ladybirder]

I'm grateful for mine. I shall treat myself to a nice box of chocolates. Thank you to all who have contributed. X
Sandy, you can get a very drinkable bottle of wine for a tenner surely?

[emmie]

equivalent to £1.15 - wow

http://www.hanoverworld.org.uk/profiles/blogs/l10-christmas-bonus

[boxtops]

There's another thread about this, it says if the bank statement shows the credit as XP, that's what it is.

[emmie]

sandy i want more than one bottle for that tenner.

[ladybirder]

chaps, this is Xmas Bonus not cold weather payments:-)

[boxtops]

so do you have to be in receipt of your pension to get it?

[ladybirder]

Well I always thought so boxy, but last time I looked on the other thread bednobs said she got it but is not a pensioner - so not sure now.

[albaqwerty]

I believe you have to be over 70 to get it.

One fish supper and a bottle of pop.

[chaptazbru]

O I didn't know that ladybirder, don't think Dad does either. He just assumed it was part of cold weather payment! I'll tell him when I see him at the weekend.

[emmie]

i received mine, and most definitely not 70.. I think it comes if you get certain benefits..

[emmie]

nothing to do with cold weather payments.

[mazie]

All state pensioners get the £10 bonus. Only pensioners getting Pension credit get the cold weather payments..well according to the DWP site

[boxtops]

Mazie, that's not correct on that site, then - I've deferred my state pension, I'm not claiming it yet, and I still get my cold weather payment.

[888]

£10 Christmas bonus, I think carers get it too

[ladybirder]

Loads of people get it:

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

[emmie]

it's welcome that's all i know