Thousands of UK recipients of Universal Credit are being urged to check their Christmas pay packet, to avoid seeing cuts to their benefits.
While employers can pay wages early in December - in a bid to ensure that staff receive their pay ahead of bank holiday delays - the move can trick Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems into believing that people have received temporary salary increases.
This is because it may appear as if you have been paid twice during one assessment period - which has a knock on effect of potentially reducing your benefit entitlement for January 2023.
