{"id":181729,"date":"2025-12-13T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:46:07","slug":"i-just-got-10-from-dwp-was-it-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181729\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I just got \u00a310 from DWP &#8211; Was it a mistake?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A \u00a310 payment from the Department for Work and Pensions left one Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimant confused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Worried that it may be an error, they took to Reddit to seek an explanation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They wrote: &#8220;Why did I just get a payment of \u00a310? For context I have been receiving PIP and recently had a kidney transplant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just received \u00a310 but that\u2019s it\u2026 I&#8217;m just wondering is it an accident, or has anyone else only received this amount?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"> READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/dwp-says-uk-households-could-33021384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DWP says UK households could get extra payments - key details;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DWP says UK households could get extra payments &#8211; key details<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fellow forum users were quick to inform them it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Christmas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Christmas<\/a> bonus payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One said: &#8220;Its Christmas bonus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A second wrote: &#8220;Stocking filler&#8230; A whopping ten quid. Don&#8217;t spend it all in one shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Someone else said they&#8217;d been equally confused: &#8220;I got this this morning too and wondered what it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another questioned why they hadn&#8217;t received the bonus yet, to which another user replied: &#8220;Not everyone gets it at the same time, I haven&#8217;t had mine yet either so don&#8217;t worry!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Special bonus payments have been landing in bank accounts of certain benefit recipients over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The extra cash, known as the Christmas Bonus and is issued annually at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bonus is worth \u00a310 and is paid into accounts automatically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Christmas bonus is a one-off tax-free \u00a310 payment made before Christmas, paid to people who get certain benefits in the qualifying week,&#8221; the Government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is normally the first full week of December. You do not need to claim &#8211; you should get paid automatically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A full list of the eligible benefits can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/dwp-millions-people-bonus-payment-144034661.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8211; however to get the bonus, people must be in receipt of one of the benefits during the &#8216;qualifying week&#8217; &#8211; usually the first full week of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a310 payment from the Department for Work and Pensions left one Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimant confused.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,5240,246,111,139,69,244,23068,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-181729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-christmas-bonus","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personal-independence-payment","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}