Bank holiday payments

mrf1
mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Due to her majesty's funeral on the 19th, anyone that gets any benefits due to be paid on that date, is it still normal or earlier, as there's nothing on the dwp website,? Thank you.

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  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,928 Championing
    Will be Friday this week. Nothing will be showing yet as the Bank Holiday was only announced on Saturday when DWP don’t work as usual. 
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    bg844 said:
    Will be Friday this week. Nothing will be showing yet as the Bank Holiday was only announced on Saturday when DWP don’t work as usual. 
    Thankyou for your kind reply.
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,458 Championing
    Usually payments are received on the last working day before a bank holiday. As this bank holiday has only recently been announced, i don't think there's been any confirmation on whether payment would be early. For payment to be Friday, they would need to change the date on when payments are sent. Whether they can acheive this, i really don't know.
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    poppy123456 said:
    Usually payments are received on the last working day before a bank holiday. As this bank holiday has only recently been announced, i don't think there's been any confirmation on whether payment would be early. For payment to be Friday, they would need to change the date on when payments are sent. Whether they can acheive this, i really don't know.
    Thank you for your kind reply,  thats what I thought too. Only other thing is that everyone due Monday,  gets paid Tues, because it would have gone in but not cleared, there will be loads of people, plus a lot of phone calls,. The system should be automated. ...
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    woodbine said:
    I suspect that payments won't be made early, as they are for planned bank holidays, but you never know.
    Thank-you. For your kind reply. I'll ring them Friday,  see what they say, money doesn't matter in a time like like this, it's very sad, me and my wife went to the town hall to sign book of condolence today, I do have mental health problems, I don't know if anyone I could have a chat with maybe tomorrow,  it's just regarding mental health services as I feel very fobbed off. I'm alright. 
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,892 Online Community Programme Lead
    edited September 2022
    The DWP have confirmed that any payments due on 19th September should be paid on 16th and that their offices and phone lines will be closed on Monday 19th September. Press release can be viewed on the Gov website. 
  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,928 Championing
    Thanks for the info @Adrian_Scope
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    Adrian_Scope said:
    The DWP have confirmed that any payments due on 19th September should be paid on 16th and that their offices and phone lines will be closed on Monday 19th September. Press release can be viewed on the Gov website. 
    Thank-you very much
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    Ah, really thankful we have the insightful and lovely @Adrian_Scope to help us all out. Good luck everyone. 

    If anyone needs any further support please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We are all here for you  :)
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    Thankyou .L_Volunteer said:
    Ah, really thankful we have the insightful and lovely @Adrian_Scope to help us all out. Good luck everyone. 

    If anyone needs any further support please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We are all here for you  :)

    L_Volunteer said:
    Ah, really thankful we have the insightful and lovely @Adrian_Scope to help us all out. Good luck everyone. 

    If anyone needs any further support please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We are all here for you  :)

  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    Thankyou 
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    You are welcome @mrf1. How are you at the moment?  :)
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    I'm OK thanks,  people are really good on this site, 
  • mrf1
    mrf1 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    The staff on the site are wonderful 
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,536 Championing
    Thanks for that lovely feedback @mrf1 I'm so glad you're finding the community helpful :) 

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