ESA payment date Wednesday 27 December - will it go in sooner?

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

As the discussion title says, I’m due an ESA payment on Wednesday 27 December, but there are changes to when people will be paid due to the festive period. Will my ESA payment go in sooner? I personally think it will. I have looked through several articles on newspaper websites explaining the date changes for DWP payments, yet I still fine them confusing. If my ESA payment does go into the bank sooner it’ll be on Friday 22 December, the last Friday before Xmas. I’d appreciate someone clarifying if I’ll be paid sooner on the Friday instead. Got autism and some autistic aren’t the best at processing info.

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

This is from an article. Wednesday 27 December is listed as you can see and it says Friday 22 December next to it. That must mean ESA payments due on 27 December will be paid 5 days sooner, on 22 December.

poppy123456

Some say it is and other say it isn't. I can't find anything official that says exactly. If you do receive it on 22nd then please remember that your next payment after that will be Wednesday 10th January.

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

poppy123456 said:

Some say it is and other say it isn't. I can't find anything official that says exactly. If you do receive it on 22nd then please remember that your next payment after that will be Wednesday 10th January.

Yes, that’s the only thing for anyone to bare in mind if they’re getting a payment sooner, they’ve got to then wait slightly longer for the next one

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

poppy123456 said:

Some say it is and other say it isn't. I can't find anything official that says exactly. If you do receive it on 22nd then please remember that your next payment after that will be Wednesday 10th January.

I don’t think all articles say the same thing, utterly confusing 🙄😂.  I haven’t seen anything on the government site www.gov.uk, you’d have thought they’d list everything on there. 

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

Wednesday 27 December is technically a normal working day, I’d have thought payments would go in as normal on that day. Don’t know how they work out when payments go in 😂😂.

poppy123456

Mine is due on the same day but i'm not expecting it to go in earlier. It won't be spent anyway so it doesn't matter to me.

Jram46

ESA due on 27th dec will be paid Friday 22nd.
only UC due on 27th will be paid 27th.
From GOV site

poppy123456

Yes, now the information is on the gov.uk website, it wasnt available when I checked for this thread here. See link https://www.gov.uk/how-to-have-your-benefits-paid

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

Yes, I can now see now a table of info on the site, that clears everything, wanted it to go in sooner tbh.

ChrisSCOPEhtfc94

They could have put it up sooner because I couldn’t trust what the media were saying, not all the articles are the same, but better late than never.

poppy123456

There’s was never any chance of it being paid sooner then 22nd because that’s the last working day before Christmas. I’m very surprised they are paying it early too because 27th isn’t a bank holiday.