Amounts vary widely, and may be supplemented by gifts from customers, known as Christmas boxes, usually paid direct.
Bonuses may be nominal, based on performance, or a thirteenth salary type scheme.
A Christmas bonus of £10 is paid to the recipients of long-term benefit in the United Kingdom.
The subsequent Pensioners' Payments and Social Security Act of 1979 established it permanently, although the amount has never been uprated.
[2] To qualify a person must be present or ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, any European Economic Area country, or Switzerland during the qualifying week, normally the first full week of December, and get at least one of the following benefits in that week: The list of qualifying benefits has been extended since the benefit was first introduced.