State pensioners will get 'bonus' payment from DWP on TOP of £300 Winter Fuel Allowance

People in receipt of various benefits are expected to receive a further cash boost - on top of the Winter Fuel payments.

The Department for Work and Pensions has promised extra cash for pensioners who will still get the Winter Fuel Payment, which is worth £300. People in receipt of various benefits are expected to receive a further cash boost - on top of the Winter Fuel payments.

The DWP will also issue all Winter Fuel Allowance claimants with £10 in the form of the Christmas Bonus. in December, The qualifying and eligible benefits from the DWP include the Armed Forces Independence Payment as well as Attendance Allowance.

Carer's Allowance, child disability payments and Constant Attendance Allowance are also listed, as well as contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and incapacity benefit at the long-term rate from the DWP.

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Industrial death benefit (for widows or widowers), a mobility supplement and Pension Credit - the guarantee element - also make you eligible. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and State Pension are also qualifications which land you the automatic sum.

Severe disablement allowance, Unemployability supplement or allowance, the war disablement pension and war widow's pension are other qualifications, and the criteria even stretches to the widowed mother's allowance, widowed parent's allowance and widow's pension.

This was established by the Pensioners and Family Income Supplement Payments Act 1972 as a one-off payment which was repeated by the Heath government in 1973 and 1974. It was then repeated by the Labour Government in 1977 and 1978. The subsequent Pensioners' Payments and Social Security Act of 1979 established it permanently, although the amount has never been uprated.

To qualify a person must be present or ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, any European Economic Area country, or Switzerland during the qualifying week, normally the first full week of December.

The list of qualifying benefits has been extended since the benefit was first introduced.