£10

[artie]

An unexpected £10 appeared in my bank account last week.

Couldn't figure what it was connected to, but as often happens google produced the answer.

A £10 Christmas bonus for being old.

So now I'm wondering what to spend this windfall on.

But seriously £10 pressie in this day and age,

 

[akirk]

what reference was on the transaction?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It'll be DWP ..........

I had mine 5/12.

 

[Spectric]

So a life of hard work and paying taxes is rewarded with a tenner,

 

[niall Y]

Just noticed mine in the bank account ..... and every little does help. But it does put me in mind of the hoax letters of Henry Root The punch line of many of them was along the lines of : " Here's a £ 1 to restore law and order"

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Going back a few years now.

 

[Geoff_S]

First paid in 1972, never gone up. I thinks it’s called taking the p*ss.

 

[artie]

what reference was on the transaction?

REF BT14xxxxD SSA XB, 00xxxx0014760xxxxx

 

[selectortone]

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought a nice bottle of wine with mine.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

First paid in 1972, never gone up. I thinks it’s called taking the p*ss.

It must be outweighed by the paperwork costs now. It should have either gone up a lot or been scrapped .............. except it wouldn't have been the done thing to scrap it.

 

[Richard_C]

XB suffix definitely Christmas bonus. SP is state pension, WFP is winter fuel payment. XB and WFP are not taxable. We donate ours to a food bank, although I can see why some might need it for other things. Father in law, passed away long ago, used to spend his on something specific, alarm clock, small radio or similar because when it started the tenner was enough to do something with. 50 years ago, 1972, Edward Heath struggling for popular suport in the polls (far fewer then) introduced it to shore up the Tory pensioner votes. Basic state pension was £6.75 a week, so it had a real value, maybe buy your Christmas turkey and all the trimmings. 4 bottles of scotch, 60 pints of beer.

 

[Noel]

An unexpected £10 appeared in my bank account last week.

Couldn't figure what it was connected to, but as often happens google produced the answer.

A £10 Christmas bonus for being old.

So now I'm wondering what to spend this windfall on.

But seriously £10 pressie in this day and age,

600 quid would be better……..

 

[Myfordman]

Trouble is that the guvmint of whatever hue dare not risk the outcry of taking it away and joe public will forget they now get winter heating allowances, energy price support plus more means tested benefits tomthe poor/infirm

 

[artie]

600 quid would be better……..

According to Richard. C £10 in 1972 would be around £275 today.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

£108 according to a calculator.

 

[whatknot]

Well folks, I *should* have got it but didn't (as yet) but my wife did as usual

I guess its considered next to worthless for those with sufficient pension but for those on very little, perhaps £10 is worth a fair deal and worthwhile having, I suspect the cost of means testing the Christmas bonus would outweigh giving it to all

(except me ;-)

 

[Scruples]

So a life of hard work and paying taxes is rewarded with a tenner,

And a pension. A good pension too. And if you worked hard, you probably have a private pension so you'll be well off...
I think the £10 for Xmas is a waste, personally but It might help the less well-off.

 

[angus5041]

So a life of hard work and paying taxes is rewarded with a tenner,

Don't get me started on that topic lol , Lots of things didn't bother me when I was working but now I am retired i notice a lot of things, I am no way political but since watching the news mainly in the morning [still getting up at 05-30] I cant believe the stuff these Labour MPs say , i first noticed when they had a party at number 10 all they kept saying was "one rule for them" saying that to what ever the question , I have stopped watching it now all i want to hear is what they are going to do for the people when they oppose everything what are they offering ?, talk about bullying in the work place its disgusting that PMQs , I am over that now . P.S No tenner yet

 

[angus5041]

@ Richard C "We donate ours to a food bank" that's where mine is going

 

[tpaul]

An unexpected £10 appeared in my bank account last week.

Couldn't figure what it was connected to, but as often happens google produced the answer.

A £10 Christmas bonus for being old.

So now I'm wondering what to spend this windfall on.

But seriously £10 pressie in this day and age,

The Irish Government give a Christmas bonus of a whole extra weeks pension. But then they can afford it