{"id":328672,"date":"2025-12-21T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:12:13","slug":"dwp-state-pension-and-benefits-face-overhaul-at-beginning-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328672\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP state pension and benefits face overhaul at beginning of January"},"content":{"rendered":"

DWP has confirmed the state pension and Universal Credit face payment date overhaul for January 2026.\"DWPDWP state pension and benefits face overhaul at beginning of January<\/p>\n

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to rollout changes to state pensions, and other benefits, at the beginning of January. The DWP<\/a> has confirmed the state pension and Universal Credit face payment date overhaul for January 2026.<\/p>\n

Retirees could be paid state pensions and claimants their DWP benefits earlier than expected due to bank holidays in the New Year, it has been announced. B enefit claimants who receive payments on the first of every month will instead get their cash on December 31, 2025 instead of New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

This is due to it being a bank holiday. While the vast majority of benefits will be paid on their regular payment date, the following payments will be paid on December 31 instead of January 1 if someone usually gets paid on the first of the month.<\/p>\n

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The list includes Universal Credit<\/a>, State pension and Pension Credit as well as HMRC Child Benefit, Disability living allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP).<\/p>\n

Other benefits include Attendance Allowance, Carer\u2019s Allowance, Employment support allowance (ESA), Income support and Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance.<\/p>\n

In Scotland, benefit claimants who receive certain payments on the second of the month will also get paid on December 31 as January 2 is also a bank holiday.<\/p>\n

The DWP said: “Benefits are usually paid straight into your bank, building society or credit union account. If your payment date is on a weekend or a bank holiday you\u2019ll usually be paid on the working day before. This may be different for Child Benefit.”<\/p>\n

Benefits are usually paid straight into your bank, building society or credit union account.<\/p>\n

If your payment date is on a weekend or a bank holiday you\u2019ll usually be paid on the working day before. This may be different for Child Benefit, though, the DWP says on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DWP has confirmed the state pension and Universal Credit face payment date overhaul for January 2026.DWP state pension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,2215,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-328672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-personalfinance","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328672","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=328672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}