Starting from today, over one million eligible social welfare recipients will receive a once-off cash bonus, which is the last cost of living boost announced in Budget 2024. This January double payment will see more than a million recipients receive twice their weekly payment, reports The Mirror.
The payment is similar to the Christmas Bonus and will be paid automatically into people’s accounts. The same groups that were eligible for the Christmas Bonus will receive this payment too, which will help them ease the financial pinch that they continue to feel from January.
The eligible groups for this payment include the following:
– Back to Education Allowance: people coming from jobseeker’s payments need to be getting the Allowance for at least 12 months (312 days), but they may be able to use their time on their jobseeker’s payment to help them qualify.
– Back to Work Enterprise Allowance: people coming from jobseeker’s payments need to be getting the Allowance for at least 12 months (312 days), but they may be able to use their time on their jobseeker’s payment to help them qualify.
– Back to Work Family Dividend.
– Benefit payment for 65-year-olds.
– Blind Pension.
– Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit (including half-rate Carer’s Allowance).
– Community Employment.
– Deserted Wife’s Allowance and Deserted Wife’s Benefit.
– Daily Expenses Allowance, formerly called Direct Provision Allowance, for 12 months.
– Disability Allowance.
– Disablement Benefit.
– Domiciliary Care Allowance.
– Farm Assist.
– Guardian’s Payment (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory).
– Illness Benefit for 12 months or more (will be paid between 5 December 2023 and 22 December 2023), reports The Mirror.
– Invalidity Pension.
– Job Initiative Scheme.
– Jobseeker’s Allowance for 12 months (312 days or more).
– Jobseeker’s Transitional payment.
– Magdalene Commission Scheme.
– Death Benefit Scheme (under the Occupational Injuries Scheme).
– One-Parent Family Payment.
– Partial Capacity Benefit.
– Rural Social Scheme.
– State Pension (Contributory) and State Pension (Non-Contributory).
– Supplementary Welfare Allowance for 12 months (364 days or more).
– Widow, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s Pension (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory).
– Work Placement Experience Programme (if your primary payment is a qualifying social welfare payment), reports The Mirror.
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