The Christmas Bonus will be paid with your normal social welfare payment from this week – 5 December 2022. The Bonus is 100% of your normal weekly long-term social welfare payment.
If you have been getting Illness Benefit for 12 months or more, you will get a Christmas Bonus payment for the first time this year. Your Bonus will be paid between 6 December 2022 and 23 December 2022.
Following commencement of the Consumer Rights Act 2022 on 29 November 2022, the Consumer category has many new and revised pages including:
- Your consumer rights
- Terms and conditions
- Unfair sales practices
- Your rights when you buy in a shop
- Your rights if you bought in a shop before 28 November 2022
- Your online shopping rights
- Your rights if you bought online before 28 November 2022
- Problems with faulty goods
- Buying from a doorstep seller
- Buying from an online marketplace
- Your rights when you buy digital content or services
- Digital content or services you bought before 28 November 2022
- Problems with digital content or service
- Your rights when buying services
- Problems with a service
- Problem with a service you bought before 28 November 2022
- How to make a complaint