{"id":332502,"date":"2025-12-24T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332502\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:32:30","slug":"dwp-confirm-state-pension-payment-changes-for-christmas-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332502\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP confirm State Pension payment changes for Christmas 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  December has three bank holidays where payments from the DWP won&#8217;t be made. If you are due to receive a\u00a0pension payment on any of them, you should receive it early.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The DWP confirmed the early payment policy on its official website, stating: \u201cIf your payment date is on a weekend or a bank holiday, you\u2019ll usually be paid on the working day before.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>  DWP Benefit and Pension Payment Dates for December 2025<\/p>\n<p>\n  So, if you are due to be paid on Thursday, December 25, or Friday 26, then your payment will arrive on Wednesday 24 instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you are due to be paid on Thursday, January 1, then you will get the cash on Wednesday, December 31, but this can vary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Payment amounts will stay the same even if they arrive a day or two early.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recommended reading\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    You could be eligible for Cold Weather Payments if you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p>If you are eligible you will be paid automatically in Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N36fDdzyU1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/N36fDdzyU1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqeSOuCjru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lqeSOuCjru<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Department for Work and Pensions (@DWPgovuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DWPgovuk\/status\/1997259783909384633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 6, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>  DWP benefits payment dates over Christmas and New Year<\/p>\n<p>\n  These are the other DWP benefits that may be affected by the bank holidays over Christmas and New Year:\n<\/p>\n<p>Attendance Allowance<\/p>\n<p>  Carer\u2019s Allowance<\/p>\n<p>  Child Benefit\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Disability Living Allowance<\/p>\n<p>  Employment and Support Allowance\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Income Support<\/p>\n<p>  Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Personal Independence Payment\u00a0(PIP)<\/p>\n<p>  Tax Credits\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Universal Credit<\/p>\n<p>\n  Experts are warning that the earlier date could throw off people\u2019s budgeting, especially as the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December has three bank holidays where payments from the DWP won&#8217;t be made. If you are due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332503,"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-332502","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\/332502","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=332502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}