{"id":639099,"date":"2025-12-17T23:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639099\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:19:20","slug":"dwp-confirms-payment-date-changes-for-christmas-and-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639099\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP confirms payment date changes for Christmas and New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newsletter_city_edition_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"City Edition\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-gytJtb kpUGLA\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/hmrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HM Revenue and Customs<\/a> (HMRC) has already posted online guidance regarding changes to benefit payment dates, with DWP now following suit. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/state-pension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p>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<p>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<p>Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year&#8217;s Day are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/bank-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bank holidays<\/a> throughout England, Scotland and Wales, while January 2 is also a bank holiday in Scotland only.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><strong>DWP benefits and payments affected<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/universal-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Credit<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/state-pension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Pension<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Pension Credit <\/li>\n<li>Disability Living Allowance (DLA) <\/li>\n<li>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) <\/li>\n<li>Attendance Allowance <\/li>\n<li>Carer\u2019s Allowance <\/li>\n<li>Employment Support Allowance (ESA) <\/li>\n<li>Income Support <\/li>\n<li>Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (JSA) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, December 24 &#8211; no change <\/li>\n<li>Thursday, December 25 &#8211; paid on Wednesday, December 24 <\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 26 &#8211; paid on Wednesday, December 24 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Universal Credit payment dates over New Year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, January 1 &#8211; paid on Wednesday, December 31 <\/li>\n<li>Friday, January 2 &#8211; no change <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Other DWP benefit and State Pension payment dates  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas payments due on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, December 24 &#8211; paid on Tuesday, December 23 <\/li>\n<li>Thursday, December 25 &#8211; paid on Tuesday, December 23 <\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 26 &#8211; paid on Tuesday, December 23 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Year payments due on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, January 1 &#8211; paid on Wednesday, December 31 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has already posted online guidance regarding changes to benefit payment dates, with DWP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[34165,51,474,3209,2499,1786,16,15,2377],"class_list":{"0":"post-639099","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-state-pension","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-universal-credit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115737472294740421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639099","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=639099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}