State Pension Paid Four Weekly

Silvertabby

Calendar monthly would be our preference, but can understand that changing the system now would be a huge - and very costly - undertaking. 

However, can't see the point in continuing to offer weekly payments, as the cost of running 52 payrolls per year, instead of 13, must be enormous.  Most bills are now monthly, so surely it must be even harder to juggle DDs etc ?

kaMelo

The problem is removing weekly payments, or even changing four weekly to monthly, would cause uproar, no doubt followed by a report in an 'anti-Government of the day' newspaper along with a picture of a sad face of someone affected who can't now do their shopping on a Tuesday like they have always done.

Decisions like this might make economic sense but they have political ramifications too.

Murphybear

I have various payments as follows

2 weekly for state pension
2 weekly for housing benefit
 monthly for works pension
yearly for works pension (it’s only £800 a year   )
4 weekly for Attendance Allowance

It doesn’t bother me as I’m good at budgeting.  

sheramber

Silvertabby said:

Calendar monthly would be our preference, but can understand that changing the system now would be a huge - and very costly - undertaking. 

However, can't see the point in continuing to offer weekly payments, as the cost of running 52 payrolls per year, instead of 13, must be enormous.  Most bills are now monthly, so surely it must be even harder to juggle DDs etc ?

The cost is why it was changed to 4 weekly but some people may only be able to  manage their money weekly and would not be able to cope with 4 weekly payments.  

Robbie64

Some benefits are 7 day (weekly) benefits rather than daily benefits so to change the payment frequency from weekly (or multiples of weekly) to any other frequency (including monthly) would require primary legislation and possibly would cost the DWP many millions of pounds (from having to make part week payments).

ABea

UC is paid monthly in order "to help jobless people prepare for going back to work where they will likely be paid monthly", I quote. Ergo whether you've been claiming UC or working, you'll likely now have to make this transition  to  4 weekly and be out of step with the rest of the population.  Do the government think that once we are retired we are too feeble minded to cope with monthly payments?  I really would like to know their reasoning behind this ridiculous decision.  But for now I'll have to rebudget

sheramber

Not everybody os paid monhtly. S ome jobs are paid weekly, some jobs are paid 4 weekly,  

luvchocolate

I prefer to get my state pension weekly 

poppy12345

ABea said:

UC is paid monthly in order "to help jobless people prepare for going back to work where they will likely be paid monthly", I quote. Ergo whether you've been claiming UC or working, you'll likely now have to make this transition  to  4 weekly and be out of step with the rest of the population.  Do the government think that once we are retired we are too feeble minded to cope with monthly payments?  I really would like to know their reasoning behind this ridiculous decision.  But for now I'll have to rebudget

My daughter and son in law are both paid 4 weekly, not monthly.

Murphybear

I asked the council a few years ago why housing benefit couldn’t be paid monthly instead of 4 weekly as some of our tenants were struggling.  The verbal response I got was something along the lines of “our computer won’t let us”