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HM Revenue and Customs<\/a> (HMRC) has already posted online guidance regarding changes to benefit payment dates, with DWP now following suit. <\/p>\n State Pension<\/a> and benefit payments that fall on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Years Day will be affected by the festive period. <\/p>\n This is because offices, web services and telephone lines typically shut on these days over the festive fortnight, and DWP and HMRC aims to ensure payments are made on a day when offices are open so that claimants can consult an advisor if needed.<\/p>\n There will be no changes to payment dates for those receiving Child Benefit this year as Christmas Day lands on a Thursday and Boxing Day on a Friday. <\/p>\n Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day are bank holidays<\/a> throughout England, Scotland and Wales, while January 2 is also a bank holiday in Scotland only.<\/p>\n You can see the altered payment dates for the festive season below, and you can also find all the details on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n DWP benefits and payments affected<\/p>\n Universal Credit<\/a> State Pension<\/a> Pension Credit Disability Living Allowance (DLA) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Attendance Allowance Carer\u2019s Allowance Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Income Support Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (JSA) Wednesday, December 24 – no change Thursday, December 25 – paid on Wednesday, December 24 Friday, December 26 – paid on Wednesday, December 24 <\/p>\n Universal Credit payment dates over New Year:<\/p>\n Thursday, January 1 – paid on Wednesday, December 31 Friday, January 2 – no change <\/p>\n Other DWP benefit and State Pension payment dates <\/p>\n Christmas payments due on:<\/p>\n Wednesday, December 24 – paid on Tuesday, December 23 Thursday, December 25 – paid on Tuesday, December 23 Friday, December 26 – paid on Tuesday, December 23 <\/p>\n New Year payments due on:<\/p>\n Thursday, January 1 – paid on Wednesday, December 31 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has already posted online guidance regarding changes to benefit payment dates, with DWP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[126941,84,4176,468,4174,4175,2221,56,54,55,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-321644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-bank-holidays","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-payments","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance","14":"tag-state-pension","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-universal-credit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321644","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=321644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}