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one-off state pension excess?
squirrelpie
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I just noticed a strange thing on my bank statement. I normally get state pension of £164.35 paid weekly into it, but a single payment on 11 Dec was £174.35 instead. Payments in the weeks before before and the payment a week after have been the normal amounts. Is there some reason for an extra payment of £10 that I'm not aware of? Or do te DWP make mistakes like this? Or what? I thought I'd ask here before approaching them.
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Is it not the Chrismas bonus? Unchanged in decades I believe.0
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We got our £10 bonus but it was paid separate to our pensionsmake the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
If the state pension is paid weekly then the Xmas bonus is paid at the same time as the weekly pension.0
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Ah, thanks everybody. I'd not heard of this little complication in the tax/benefits system
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We got our £10 bonus but it was paid separate to our pensions
Same here.
Do you get one per household, like the heating allowance, or one per person?This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
One per qualifying person. A number of other benefits qualify as well, not just pension.
https://www.gov.uk/christmas-bonus/eligibility0
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