Cost of living payments

CoreSock

Not arrived today.

poppy12345

Aquapara said:

peteuk said:

TheLivingStone said:

I don't understand people's issue with others discussing the col payment.

You don't know what people have been through to land them in utter desperate circumstances.

I'll be checking my bank at 8am, hoping and praying it's there.

This forum is for assistance and help with benefits and tax credits.  It is aimed for people to ask questions about their benefits and TC.  However there is actually no way anyone can advise anyone else when they may or may not receive the COL payments and speculation about it being done in regions/alphabetical order/ within or out with your next payment ect doesnt help anyone. 

Equally as this is the last COL those who are in dire straights should be looking elsewhere within the forums for further advice.  

So therefore having a thread about having not recieved the COL or having the COL is somewhat counter productive. The best thing to do is await the end of the payment window and then ask “Where’s my COL”, because if you asked today the answer will be who knows, but they have until 22 Feb to pay it.  

I get that in times of need you load hope in receiving it on the first few days of the payment window, but there was never a guarantee of that payment and actually with the window being until 22 Feb then I personally would plan to receive it then and if it comes in any earlier then its a bonus.

Half of this thread could be reported and removed in theory. 

Yes but it is handy to know time frames when the payment comes in for some people so others can check their bank at that time also

How does it help? The payment window is as it is. I received my payment on the first day but this doesn’t tell me when my daughter will receive hers. 

It will be in your bank when it arrives and no one can predict that.