Universal Credit payout dates amended for December - check if you're affected

Bank Holidays astir Christmas and New Year mean galore Universal Credit claimants volition person their wealth added to their accounts earlier than accustomed - but this volition instrumentality to mean the pursuing month

Brits receiving Universal Credit and different benefits whitethorn spot their wealth onshore earlier than accustomed successful December.

With Christmas conscionable astir the corner, galore of america are feeling the fiscal wrath of buying each those presents, festive food, and enactment bash drinks. For many, expanding energy bills and sky-high market costs are capable of a worry. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC bash not wage benefits oregon authorities pensions connected slope holidays. As Christmas Day falls connected a Wednesday, and Boxing Day connected a Thursday, this twelvemonth - you mightiness spot a flimsy tweak to your outgo date.

If you usually get paid connected the 25th oregon 26th of each month, the DWP and HMRC volition apt wage you connected the last moving time earlier these dates which this twelvemonth volition beryllium Tuesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve). If you unrecorded successful Northern Island, immoderate Tax Credit payments owed connected the 27th volition besides onshore successful your relationship aboriginal connected Christmas Eve.

For those paid connected the 1st of each month, your January outgo volition beryllium affected arsenic New Year's Day is besides classed arsenic a slope holiday. This means you're apt to person the wealth a time earlier connected December 31. As previously reported, slope vacation dates bash not conscionable impact Universal Credit, and besides use to the following:

• Attendance allowance
• Carer's allowance
• Disability surviving allowance
• Income support
• Jobseekers allowance
• Pension credit
• Personal independency payments (PIP)
• State pension
• Child payment (paid by HMRC)
• Tax credits (paid by HMRC)

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Getting paid aboriginal by 1 oregon 2 days mightiness look similar a small perk, but retrieve your payout the pursuing period volition instrumentality to normal. This means you'll request to marque your wealth past for longer - albeit lone a mates of days maximum. If you're going to beryllium paid aboriginal successful December, you bash not request to bash anything. The magnitude you person volition not beryllium impacted and it volition beryllium sent to the aforesaid relationship arsenic usual. If your payout day doesn't autumn connected a slope vacation (aka December 24), determination volition beryllium nary alteration whatsoever.

For those connected cosmopolitan recognition that are having fiscal difficulty, for illustration if you're down connected your rent, you tin use for an Alternative Payment Arrangement (APA). Having an APA could mean your rent is paid straight to your landlord, you person payments doubly a period alternatively of erstwhile a month, oregon you put to get a abstracted outgo from your partner. You tin learn much astir APAs here.

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