{"id":281948,"date":"2025-11-25T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281948\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:54:20","slug":"advice-offered-on-move-to-direct-benefit-payments-on-isle-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281948\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice offered on move to direct benefit payments on Isle of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An advice session to help people move from collecting their pensions and benefits in cash to direct bank payments has been arranged following strong political criticism of a lack of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 800 people still collect payments at post offices using the government&#8217;s MiCard system, which was due to be switched off on 31 December but has now been extended by a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The social security division has now arranged a drop-in session for remaining users, offering support and advice about gaining access to a bank account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The session &#8211; which will be attended by representatives of four banks operating on the island &#8211; takes place at Markwell House in Douglas between 09:30 and 12:30 GMT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An advice session to help people move from collecting their pensions and benefits in cash to direct bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-281948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}