£10/£60 one off payments for people on means tested benefits

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I will keep this thread updated about the progress. According to a lady I spoke to yesterday at income support it has to be investigated by payment delivery services. I'm expecting a call back from them (hopefully) today or tomorrow.

anmarj

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

No general election this year = no extra payments.

no, more of the time flies by! Somebody was asking me about something at work a few weeks ago and we got the month right but the wrong year of when it started! we did find it eventually:)

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Cold Weather Payments are also separate from the Christmas Bonus which is paid automatically each year to pensioners and to claimants of certain other non-means-tested benefits for people of working age. This has been paid at the same rate - £10 – since the 1970s, but for winter 2008/2009 only all those eligible for the Christmas Bonus received an additional one-off payment of £60 in recognition of the problems faced by vulnerable groups and people on fixed incomes as a result of the economic downturn.9 The additional payment was not repeated for winter 2009/2010. Some people who received the £60 payment last winter may have been under the impression that it was a Cold Weather Payment, and may therefore be puzzled as to why they have not received an additional amount this year following the recent cold spell.

Unfortunately I can't post the link to the pdf that contains that info as I get the message that i'm a new user and not allowed to post links.

However if you go to the search engine bing.com and type '£60 one off payment means tested benefits' its the 3rd result down which is a pdf file.

The file name is: parliament.uk/briefingpapers/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsp-00696