Received £10 Christmas Bonus

elle_may

Received mine today in my essa payment.The letter will come next week i expect.

Marmaduke123

longleggedhair wrote: »

It is being taken away, but by the back door....slowly letting inflation eat it away is easier than taking the plunge and stopping it all together.

The same thing will happen to the winter fuel payment in time.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Marmaduke123 wrote: »

The same thing will happen to the winter fuel payment in time.

Not necessarily. In 2009/10 the Labour Government led by Gordon Brown increased the WFP to £300 as a bribe to the elderly electorate as there was a general election in the offering. What do you think will happen if Corbyn ever gets in?

sheramber

iN 1995/96 Gordon brown reduced the value of the married couples tax allowance by £86. There was an outcry from pensioners and it was admitted he didn't take into account how the reduced allowance would affect pensioners .
But he could not increase it again so as a sop to them he introduced the winter fuel payment with a payment of £20 each.

longleggedhair

sheramber wrote: »

iN 1995/96 Gordon brown reduced the value of the married couples tax allowance by £86. There was an outcry from pensioners and it was admitted he didn't take into account how the reduced allowance would affect pensioners .
But he could not increase it again so as a sop to them he introduced the winter fuel payment with a payment of £20 each.

Brown didn't become chancellor until 1997.

phoenix1837

On another thread, there is a news article that it is being scrapped for those on UC but those on traditional benefits will still receive it. I'm guessing this may the last year of anyone getting it.

Johno100

Marmaduke123 wrote: »

The same thing will happen to the winter fuel payment in time.

Wont need it with climate change, a silver lining to that cloud.:D

poppasmurf_bewdley

phoenix1837 wrote: »

On another thread, there is a news article that it is being scrapped for those on UC but those on traditional benefits will still receive it. I'm guessing this may the last year of anyone getting it.

I'm guessing it won't!

phoenix1837

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I'm guessing it won't!

What makes you say that? I'm just curious, I don't get it anyway so makes no difference to me. I just presumed as they are switching everyone over to UC eventually that this would mean the £10 bonus would stop.

poppasmurf_bewdley

phoenix1837 wrote: »

What makes you say that? I'm just curious, I don't get it anyway so makes no difference to me. I just presumed as they are switching everyone over to UC eventually that this would mean the £10 bonus would stop.

If you read what I said in post #10 above, you may understand why I say that. And pensioners are not being transferred to Universal Credit - we are a very vocal and voting group who wouldn't put up with all the nonsense those receiving UC are getting from the DWP and Government at the moment!