Christmas Bonus
Paid in December
Who is Eligible?
INCREASE CHRISTMAS BONUS
- Increase Christmas Bonus from current £10 to £231 December 2025 (tax free by not deducted from your personal tax allowance).
- Still sourced from our new National Insurance Pension Scheme.
Background
Paul Lewis@paullewismoney
The tax-free £10 Christmas Bonus is going into bank accounts around now. It is paid to 12 million pensioners and others on long term benefits such as widows and some disabled people. First introduced in 1972 when the basic state pension was £6.75 a week, today it should be £231.
8:19 AM · Dec 13, 2023
From Gov UK website
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS BONUS?
The Christmas Bonus is a one-off tax-free £10 payment made before Christmas, paid to people who get certain benefits in the qualifying week. This is normally the first full week of December.
You do not need to claim - you should get paid automatically.
Eligibility
To get a Christmas Bonus you must be present or ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Gibraltar during the qualifying week.
If you live in or are moving to a European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland, find out about benefits for UK nationals in the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
You must also get at least one of the following benefits in the ‘qualifying week’ - this is normally the first full week of December:
- Adult Disability Payment
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- Attendance Allowance
- Carer’s Allowance
- Carer Support Payment
- Child Disability Payment
- Constant Attendance Allowance (paid under Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
- Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (once the main phase of the benefit is entered after the first 13 weeks of claim)
- Disability Living Allowance
- Incapacity Benefit at the long-term rate
- Industrial Death Benefit (for widows or widowers)
- Mobility Supplement
- Pension Credit - the guarantee element
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- State Pension (including Graduated Retirement Benefit)
- Severe Disablement Allowance (transitionally protected)
- Unemployability Supplement or Allowance (paid under Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
- War Disablement Pension at State Pension age
- War Widow’s Pension
- Widowed Mother’s Allowance
- Widowed Parent’s Allowance
- Widow’s Pension
If you have not claimed your State Pension and are not entitled to one of the other qualifying benefits you will not get a Christmas Bonus.
