The Christmas bonus will take the form of an automatic, one-off £10 payment made on the first week of December.

This will hopefully create less stress over the holidays for some of the six million people currently estimated to be on Universal Credit.

To find out if you are eligible, please visit https://www.gov.uk/christmas-bonus.

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