Mysterious Payment from DWP

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  • CIS
    CIS Posts: 12,260 Forumite
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    AFAIK cristmas bonus has just about been on from the start, in one form of the other.

    If you think thats tight, have a look at age addition for people who reach 80, 25p a week since 1971 , its also included as income in means tested benefits like pension credit
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  • dizzydoris_2
    dizzydoris_2 Posts: 4 Newbie
    yes it is the xmas bonus but any idea what the BGC means please?
  • dugdale_2
    dugdale_2 Posts: 470 Forumite
    Bank Giro Credit
  • PipsoG
    PipsoG Posts: 75 Forumite
    This thread was started - 3rd December 2005! I would think by now that the OP will have realised that the payment was the Christmas Bonus and also what the initials BGC means by now!
  • rovernut
    rovernut Posts: 3 Newbie
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    edited 8 December 2010 at 10:47AM
    I've got one and am not receiving disability so it must be for being a pensioner or receiving heating allowance.

    Don't know where they find all this extra money in these hard times!


    Ooops! just seen how old this thread is.
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    I have got £10 Christmas Bonus (State Pensioner) and so has husband (Incapacity Benefit).

    Actually tbh I think that is one of the cuts the Coalition SHOULD make, what a waste of money.
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  • amibovvered
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    Well I was looking to see if carers allowance had increased - as that is the only benefit I get and it's £10 more than I expected this month - but it sounds like I get the £10 bonus as well? Didn't know that! :j

    Happy Christmas everyone! :santa2::snow_laug
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  • amibovvered
    amibovvered Posts: 461 Forumite
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    anguk wrote: »
    Funnily enough we were just talking about this last week, we were trying to work out how long they've been paying the £10 bonus, I'm sure my mother-in-law was getting it about 15 years ago, whatever happened to inflation? :rotfl:

    There is a little known rule that only the money you have to pay out is affected by inflation. The money you receive is calculated retrospectively against MP expenses and mysteriously remains the same. :D
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  • Lou76
    Lou76 Posts: 428 Forumite
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    amibovvered wrote: »
    Well I was looking to see if carers allowance had increased - as that is the only benefit I get and it's £10 more than I expected this month - but it sounds like I get the £10 bonus as well? Didn't know that! :j

    Happy Christmas everyone! :santa2::snow_laug

    It sounds as though that £10 extra in your CA is your "Christmas Bonus". Don't get too exited just yet.

    My £10 is usually paid along with my DLA, therefore making it £10 extra that month, however, last week the £10 was paid on its own, and DLA isn't due until the 21st.

    No idea why its changed this year, but there must be a reason for it... :p
  • themull1
    themull1 Posts: 4,299 Forumite
    XB = stands for christmas bonus
    BGC = Bank Giro Credit

    I agree, should be scrapped.
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