{"id":309091,"date":"2025-08-01T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309091\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:19:14","slug":"dwp-benefits-and-pensions-changes-august-bank-holiday-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309091\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP benefits and pensions changes August bank holiday 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  August 25, 2025,\u00a0is a bank holiday where payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) won&#8217;t be made. If you are due to receive a\u00a0DWP benefit payment on either day, you may find you receive it early.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If your\u00a0payment is due on a different day, it will arrive in your account as normal and the amount you are due to be paid will remain the same.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When a payment date falls on a weekend or a bank holiday, then the Department for Work and Pensions says the claimant is generally paid on the working day before, but this can vary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Most payments due on Monday, August 25, 2025, will instead be made early, with most arriving on Friday, August 22.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These are the benefits that may be affected by the bank holiday weekend:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance Allowance\n  <\/li>\n<li>Carer\u2019s Allowance\n  <\/li>\n<li>Child Benefit\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Disability Living Allowance\n  <\/li>\n<li>Employment and Support Allowance\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Income Support\n  <\/li>\n<li>Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Pension Credit\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Personal Independence Payment\u00a0(PIP)\n  <\/li>\n<li>State pension\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Tax Credits\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>Universal Credit\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  While you may be paid earlier in some cases, the money will also have to last you longer, as payment dates will return to normal afterwards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Recommended reading:<\/strong>\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>\n  While the amount being paid out will stay the same, 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>\n  The two remaining bank holidays for 2025 fall on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 25, 2025,\u00a0is a bank holiday where payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) won&#8217;t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309091","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-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953241584497229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}