The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is giving millions of benefit claimants a Christmas Bonus this year. This will be a one-off, tax-free £10 payment made before Christmas Day and paid to people who are in receipt of certain benefits during the qualifying period - normally the first full week of December.
And the best bit is that you don’t even need to claim as it should automatically go into the account you usually receive your benefit payments and will show as ‘DWP XB’ on your bank statement.
Although, it's worth noting the DWP will make this as a separate payment, independent of your usual one, so it may arrive on a different day.
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