Warning! Big benefit payments shake-up: frequency and pay-day will change for most

norfolkshops

f only your pay week-ending day is changing

If you are currently paid a minimum of fortnightly in arrears, you may need to have your payment adjusted to enable the move to a different pay week-ending day determined by your National Insurance Number. You will receive a notification 4 weeks before this change takes place.

You will receive all the benefit you are entitled to and no recoverable loan will be made available.

kevanf1

KimYeovil wrote: »

What universe are you weirdos living in? The lower your income the more vital and necessary the stock cupboard is. You !!!!!!s are probably all so flush from swanning around on £60 a week plus another goodness knows how much from your "boo hoo I feel too stressed at the prospect of lowering myself to take that stop-gap" living allowance bonuses that you have never experienced poverty in your life. "Ooh I can't feed myself on £54!" Complete twaddle.

And anyway, if they stop paying weekly and start paying fortnightly or monthly surely that will ease the situation - is it not much better to receive a lump sum of £128 every two weeks than a sum of £64 every week?

(And hang on - you just revealed that your sister survived for more than a month on nothing! )

Wow!!! Does it take plenty of practise to be quite so nasty? Come on, lighten up a little or the way you are going you'll be eaten up by your own darkness.

kadiya

i know a lot of people have been talking about people on JSA and IS, but can anyone please explain to me how this will affect someone on IB?
My OH recieves IBevery fortnight, so does this mean that we will get paid and then have to wait another 4 weeks to get paid again?
Because that, to me, is a worrying concept, especially in terms of the DD's and things.
We are already in debt, through plenty of fault of our own, and I'm trying to do something about it now, but I'm not sure how we would manage without any of his money for a whole month.
Did I read it wrong?I just need someone to clear this up for me.
Thanks in advance

descartesmum

So acording to my NI number I will now be getting my IS on Thursdays. Considering that since March it was changed from Mondays (it's been that for years) to Wednesdays this is not good since I get my DLA on Wednesdays.

I actually wrote to my MP complaining that the DLA never told me that it was switching to Wednesdays and monthly payments!! My wonderful MP, Barbara Follet, got in touch with who ever is the head of this mess and it has been agreed that I will continue getting my weekly payments. Hopefully the incompentent 6th former who took my call was punished because he was so patronising and nasty. If the IS people can give loans why couldn't the DLA? This young guy was a real snot.

bestpud

descartesmum wrote: »

So acording to my NI number I will now be getting my IS on Thursdays. Considering that since March it was changed from Mondays (it's been that for years) to Wednesdays this is not good since I get my DLA on Wednesdays.

I actually wrote to my MP complaining that the DLA never told me that it was switching to Wednesdays and monthly payments!! My wonderful MP, Barbara Follet, got in touch with who ever is the head of this mess and it has been agreed that I will continue getting my weekly payments. Hopefully the incompentent 6th former who took my call was punished because he was so patronising and nasty. If the IS people can give loans why couldn't the DLA? This young guy was a real snot.

I imagine (I don't know) it is because DLA is usually a supplementary benefit and people can recieve it and be earning a good wage etc.

I'm not sure from your post what you mean about your benefits day changing but I thought the idea is to make all benefits payable on the same day. Therefore, eventually, you will recieve it all on the day indicated by your NI number i.e. Thursday.

zzzLazyDaisy

kadiya wrote: »

i know a lot of people have been talking about people on JSA and IS, but can anyone please explain to me how this will affect someone on IB?

I am on IB and DLA. Until recently both benefits were paid together once a fortnight in one payment. That made it easy to budget. Then, with only about 6 weeks warning, they changed my DLA to monthly, and now it is paid separately and on a different date to my IB. I had one normal payment of two weeks money, the following fortnight I got one week's money, and then I had to wait a whole month before I was paid again. This money pays my carer who gets paid weekly, so it was a nightmare.

So far I've heard nothing about IB, and I'm hoping that since it is already paid fortnightly, the payments won't change.

But in the longer term it wouldn't surprise me if all state benefits change to monthly payments - and to anyone who thinks people affected should just budget for the missing payments.......... you have obviously never had to juggle your life on such a low income as that provided by state benefits!

IvorGlyn

Earlier this year I had to survive for 5 weeks on 2 weeks Disability Living Allowance when they changed from fortnightly to monthly in arrears. Yes they sent me a letter but it was so vague and my brain was not able to take it all in. Then when I phoned I was told I could change to weekly and would receive some money that Friday. When it never turned up I phoned again and was told I had been wrongly informed and would still have to wait until 24th March (date etched on brain) for money but they could change it to weekly after that!!!! I said "I need this money to live on" and they responded it should only be used for help in the home - are disabled suppose to go without help for 3 weeks or what? Let them try and survive on it. It was all very badly organised and handled. I'm now dreading it happening to my Incapacity Benefit after reading your report. You can't even organise monthly DDs around it as the date changes every month. What a headache.:mad:

simple_living

I've just read the whole of this thread and am shocked at the patronising 'advice' given so glibly by some who are obviously not in the position of knowing what it's like, from actual personal experience, to be on benefits long term [which is different to short term as large expensive things like furniture and white goods and electricals wear out and pack up and need replacing].

Also, I noticed someone using their son as an example, saying because he was single he didn't get tax credits etc
quite...as he won't have children to provide for - will he?
not a good example to give to parents on here who may be on disablement benefit [like us] and still have dependant children at home.

I plan and buy food in for 7 meals out of what is left after paying the meters and bills, so to say to us that finding money for another 7 days food is easy to budget for, is ridiculous.
Yes, if it's just one person, ourselves, we have to think of...that would be fine.....but when you have kids who need busfares etc..and a growing lad like mine who is now into size 12 shoes and whose feet have grown about 3 or 4 sizes in the last 18 months [this is just an example of the detail of living]...
there is a poster who seems to be a Christian, as I am, judging from the sig words under her/his posts, but I detect no Christian compassion, only a superior attitude from someone who is not in the same boat...
the superior attitude must come from being up that mountain in Spain.
Well some of us are stuck here in the good old U.K. living on U.K. benefits whilst also coping with the pain and weariness and chronic stress that long term painful illnesses bring.

thanks to the person that pointed out that budgeting loans can take more than 4 weeks to come through...this is FACT - if it weren't for budgeting loans we would not be able to get Christmas gifts for family...
as for holidays home or abroad ...long ago we had to give up on them.

simple_living

IvorGlyn wrote: »

You can't even organise monthly DDs around it as the date changes every month.

I know that you might miss out on the slight discount that having DD's brings
but I would never use DD's in our position of being on a limited income of benefits.
I use the online banking option of 'Payment Transfer' - quite easy to set up for whoever you want to pay...and then you are in control of what day and when something is paid..
.. it takes away the risk of money not being in the account to pay the DD and incurring a bank charge.

dmg24

simple_living wrote: »

thanks to the person that pointed out that budgeting loans can take more than 4 weeks to come through...this is FACT - if it weren't for budgeting loans we would not be able to get Christmas gifts for family...
as for holidays home or abroad ...long ago we had to give up on them.

Budgeting loans are not for buying Christmas presents with! Any points you may have made in your post have been completely invalidated by this comment.