In the lead-up to Christmas Day, many people will be hoping their benefit payments come in in time to prepare for the festivities and expensive present-buying.
Due to the amount of bank holidays at the end of the year, many will be worried that their payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may not come through in time. However, the DWP have laid out a payment plan for throughout the Christmas period, to ease the stress on claimants.
The plan means that benefit claimants will generally not receive their money late, if the due date was scheduled to land on a bank holiday. In typical cases, payments will be made on the prior working day to the due date, if the payment date does land on a bank holiday.
