How much you might be paid

If you’re eligible, you’ll get a letter in November or December that tells you how much you’ll be paid.

If you do not get a letter and think you’re eligible, check if you need to claim from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

You’ll get £200 or £300 if you’re eligible

To be eligible for the payment, you must get at least one other, specific benefit on at least one day of the qualifying week.

The amount you’ll be paid depends on:

• your age during the qualifying week
• the age of anyone you jointly claim your qualifying benefit with

To find out how much you could get, read the scenarios below.

You do not jointly claim your qualifying benefit

You’re aged 66 to 79 in the qualifying week

You’ll get £200.

You’re aged 80 or over in the qualifying week

You’ll get £300.

You jointly claim your qualifying benefit

If you live with someone and jointly claim certain benefits with them, one of you will get a single payment. It’ll be paid into the bank account where your benefits are normally paid.

The benefits are:

• Pension Credit
• Universal Credit
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Income Support

You might also be eligible if you got Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit. This only applies if you got at least £26 from those benefits in the 2024 to 2025 tax year.

You and your partner are both aged 66 to 79 in the qualifying week

You’ll get a single shared payment of £200.

One of you is aged 66 to 79 in the qualifying week but the other is under 66

You’ll get a single payment of £200.

Either you or your partner are aged 80 or over in the qualifying week

You’ll get a single shared payment of £300.