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Written Question
Christmas Bonus
Wednesday 29th January 2025

Asked by: Anna Sabine (Liberal Democrat - Frome and East Somerset)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the annual pensioner Christmas bonus in line with inflation.

Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Department has no current plans to make such an assessment.

The Christmas Bonus was initially introduced as a one-off payment of £10 in 1972 and has not been uprated or increased on a yearly basis like some benefits.