DWP Christmas Bonus Eligibility List and Winter Fuel Payment: The department of work and pension in UK is the releasing the Christmas bonus and winter fuel payment 2024 to all the eligible citizens in the country. The upcoming payment for winter fuel payment and the Christmas Bonus is scheduled to be release in November and December month. So, if you are also living in United Kingdom and want to get the payment when can check this article “DWP Christmas Bonus Eligibility List and Winter Fuel Payment” where we will share with you in the step-by-step information of DWP financial assistance including the eligibility criteria, application procedure, how much citizens will get, how to check payment status etc.
DWP Christmas Bonus Eligibility List and Winter Fuel Payment
If you are eligible to receive both payments of Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment, then you will get maximum £310 Amount in upcoming month. Where the €10 is provided to all the eligible citizens as a Christmas Bonus and approximately 300 euro will be released for individuals who want to get winter fuel payment. These payments are released to provide financial assistance to the low-income citizens in the country who are facing problem to manage their daily life items. This onetime payment will help All the Eligible participants to spend the money for their personal welfare.
As it is one-time extra payment by the government, so if you are getting other benefits also from DWP then the payment will not be deducted, and it will be released additionally in the bank account of the beneficiary.
Eligibility for Winter Fuel Payment
- Citizen who are living in England for Wave will get the benefits of winter fuel payment. However if you are living in Scotland then can get same payment from the department of work and pension of Scotland government.
- Only citizens who born between 23 September 1958 will be eligible for getting the financial assistance of winter fuel payment in UK.
- Individual should already getting benefit of any of the following programs Pension Credit, Universal Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support, Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit. And it is also important to receive the payment of the among programs between 16 to 22 dates of September 2024.
Apart from this if any beneficiary is living in the Care home for less than 13 weeks can also apply for the winter fuel payment. But if you live more than it or you was a prisoner in the year of 2024 then you will not able to claim the payment.
Eligibility for Christmas Bonus in UK 2024
- The applicant must be present or ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Gibraltar during the qualifying week.
- The payment will be provided to only those childrens who are getting any of the pension program of DWP in the country.
So if you have above eligibility then you can get your Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment before Christmas 2024 in the bank account directly.
Amount of Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment
The payment of Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment will be release separately and most of the beneficial is will able to get both payment on the schedule dates. However the government is providing maximum 300 to the citizens for winter fuel payment for the session of 2024-25 but it is the maximum amount which is remaged between 100 to 300 and will vary according to your eligibility. But the Christmas Bonus payment is fixed for all the citizens which is €10. You can check detailed information of the payments for different citizens in the following table.
| Situation | Born between 23 September 1944 and 22 September 1958 | Born before 23 September 1944 | Christmas Bonus |
| You live alone | £200 | £300 | £10 |
| You live with someone under 80 | £100 | £200 | £10 |
| You live with someone over 80 | £150 | £300 | £10 |
| You live in a care home | £200 | £300 | £10 |
Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment Date
The department of work and pension in the UK will release One time payment of Christmas Bonus and winter fuel payment between November December of 2024. However the Christmas Bonus payment will be released in the first week of December 2024, where the winter fuel payment will also be released during the same duration.
However government will made all the payments before 29 January 2025 and if citizen do not receive payment until the deadline then they can contact to the department of work in pension accordingly to resolve the problem.
