Each 12 months, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) gives a one-off money tax-free bonus for individuals who get sure advantages within the qualifying week.

Eligible advantages embody Attendance Allowance, Pension Credit, PIP, state pension and lots of extra.

The Christmas Bonus is a one-off tax-free £10 fee made earlier than Christmas. This is often the primary full week of December.

To get a Christmas Bonus claimants have to be current or ‘ordinarily resident’ within the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Gibraltar throughout the qualifying week.

All advantages, pensions and allowances are usually paid into an account, similar to their checking account.

It could present up as ‘DWP XB’ on their financial institution assertion.

Claimants should additionally get at the very least one of many following advantages within the ‘qualifying week’:

• Adult Disability Payment
• Armed Forces Independence Payment
• Attendance Allowance
• Carer’s Allowance
• Child Disability Payment
• Constant Attendance Allowance (paid beneath Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
• Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (as soon as the primary section of the profit is entered after the primary 13 weeks of declare)
• Disability Living Allowance
• Incapacity Benefit on the long-term price
• Industrial Death Benefit (for widows or widowers)
• Mobility Supplement
• Pension Credit - the assure component
• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• State Pension (together with Graduated Retirement Benefit)
• Severe Disablement Allowance (transitionally protected)
• Unemployability Supplement or Allowance (paid beneath Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
• War Disablement Pension at State Pension age
• War Widow’s Pension
• Widowed Mother’s Allowance
• Widowed Parent’s Allowance
• Widow’s Pension

If somebody has not claimed their state pension and isn't entitled to one of many different qualifying advantages, they won't get a Christmas Bonus.

If somebody doesn’t at the moment get advantages however thinks they is perhaps eligible, it is perhaps value checking in order that they'll get the bonus £10 fee.

Britons can do that utilizing a advantages calculator on the Government web site.

A spokesperson for the DWP instructed the Daily Record: "If you have not claimed your state pension and are not entitled to one of the other qualifying benefits you will not get a Christmas Bonus.

“If you’re part of a married couple, in a civil partnership or living together and you both get one of the qualifying benefits you will each get a Christmas Bonus payment."