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DWP Universal Credit and Other Benefit Payment Dates for Christmas 2025 and New Year
Payments for benefits and state pensions will be made earlier when falling on bank holidays as DWP adjusts schedules to aid around 24 million claimants during Christmas and New Year.
- DWP announced that payments scheduled for Thursday 25 December and New Year's Day will be paid early on Wednesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 31 respectively.
- Because a payment date falls on a bank holiday, the Government website explains benefits are usually paid the working day before, so bank holidays in late December prompt DWP and banks to adjust payment days.
- Around 24 million people claim DWP-administered benefits, and payments follow a four-week cycle tied to the last two digits of your national insurance number.
- Households can apply for local help including the Household Support Fund and Discretionary Housing Payments, while budgeting advance loans for Universal Credit claimants cover emergency costs.
- The DWP plans an April 2026 uprating while also cutting the health-related UC element for new claimants from £105 to £50, frozen until 2029-30.
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