£10 Christmas Bonus

Iheart

I wonder what the admin cost of sending out a multiple page letter stating that you are getting the £10 bonus is?

I got mine this year after my son's DLA payment had already been paid.

Torry_Quine

Iheart wrote: »

I wonder what the admin cost of sending out a multiple page letter stating that you are getting the £10 bonus is?

I got mine this year after my son's DLA payment had already been paid.

I've never had a letter.

just_trying

sammyjammy wrote: »

Yes stop it but not until people on state benefits are given a cost of living rise.

Cost of living rise. Plenty people work who would be better of on benefits, not given any rise in years. Continue to work pay tax, they're own rent etc.

I've been on benefits before, it's not great but neither is working when you could get nearly the same in benefits.

w06

It always sort of amuses/baffles me, because of the way it's administered it must cost a lot more than £10 per person, with the 'your benefit will be x until 20 somethingth of November and then x+£10 and then x again' letters and responding to phone calls/letters clarifying what that means and why.

Personally it does make a difference, the only benefit I'm on is PIP (was DLA since about 2000) but I earn less than I'd receive in out of work benefits and so an extra £10 does end up as a treat, and I make a point of spending it on food for a treat meal. But it's interesting that when it was introduced it must have been a pretty large and month changing payment if £10 in the 1970s.

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As this part of MSE is about helping people with benefit problems/questions and not for a discussion on the rights and wrongs of the benefits system I'm going to close this thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/365935