No £10 Xmas bonus!!

DenBo_4

Hi al. I am receiving DLA, IB and IS to pay mortgage interest payments. I thought if you were on DLA etc you would get a £10 Xmas bonus, which so far I have not received. `Who would I contact, DLA or IB? I know it's only £10 but I could do with it! Thanks

wolfehouse

my OH already got his. he's only on dla so i would try those folks.

emilyt

You should have had a letter saying that £10.00 was going into your account.They were recieved a couple of weeks ago now.I would do as Wolfhouse says and ring up the D.L.A asap. Hope that helps.
Emily

cattie

emilyt wrote: »

You should have had a letter saying that £10.00 was going into your account.They were recieved a couple of weeks ago now.I would do as Wolfhouse says and ring up the D.L.A asap. Hope that helps.
Emily

I never had a letter, but the £10 was paid into my account.

If you are ringing them up then it may help to know that in some cases staff are at their desks between 7:30-8 am & you can get more chance of getting through if you phone early enough.

hayley11

Yeah I would definitely ring up, it's odd that they haven't paid it you. I got mine a couple of weeks ago, as did my mum and brother. H x

lilac_lady

Is it only for higher rate DLA or does the lower rates qualify for the £10 bonus?

Poppycat

http://www.tssa.org.uk/article-1.php3?id_article=1983

The £10.00 Christmas bonus is normally paid automatically to anyone who is in receipt of at least one of a variety of benefits including Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Incapacity Benefit (long term rate), Retirement Pension, etc.
A couple (married or unmarried) may receive two payments where both are entitled to a payment of a qualifying benefit.
An additional bonus may be paid for a married or unmarried partner provided:
they are both over pensionable age by the end of the relevant week;
the couple are living together as husband and wife; and either,
the customer is entitled to a payment of an increase of the qualifying benefit for the other member of the couple; or
the only qualifying benefit is Income Support.

lil_me

If you are on IS aswell as DLA it usually goes onto the DLA payment before Christmas (only one payment is made per family, regardless of how many benefit types received) I have known cases where people have not had the payment, sometimes there is confusion as to if DLA or IS has paid it. I also have know people to get 2 then them recover the payment later.

Poppycat

I am still waiting for the result of a appeal on behave of my daughter which I have been waiting since Feb 07 only just got the appeal the other week, and it wont be until end of Jan whether we have got DLA for her, talk about being slow and doctors are no better

SMC_2

lil_me wrote: »

If you are on IS aswell as DLA it usually goes onto the DLA payment before Christmas (only one payment is made per family, regardless of how many benefit types received) I have known cases where people have not had the payment, sometimes there is confusion as to if DLA or IS has paid it. I also have know people to get 2 then them recover the payment later.

It should be DLA that pay it as claiming IS does not entitle you to the Christmas Bonus

alison99_2

lil_me wrote: »

If you are on IS aswell as DLA it usually goes onto the DLA payment before Christmas (only one payment is made per family, regardless of how many benefit types received) I have known cases where people have not had the payment, sometimes there is confusion as to if DLA or IS has paid it. I also have know people to get 2 then them recover the payment later.

This bit is wrong. Each person living in the household will receive the Christmas Bonus provided they are each on a qualifying benefit.