T’is the season to be jolly, and if you’re in receipt of benefits it’s that time when the magical DWP envelope pops through the door.
Usually a harbinger of doom for those on regularly reassessed benefits, this time of year it’s more a Schroedinger's brown envelope- is it good news for a change or the same old terrible? Oh no, it’s the £10 Christmas “bonus”!
Now I know what you’re thinking, an extra tenner at Christmas? How lovely, if only that were the case. You see the £10 Christmas “bonus” was introduced in 1972 and hasn’t changed since.
