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JSA Payment due on a bank holiday?

first off let me aplologise if this is in the wrong place, this is my first post.

Anyway i signed on on Tuesday and i should be recieving my money on the friday, however this friday i think is a bank holiday. what will happen to my payment? will i get it earlier or later or the same day with no troubles?

Thanks in advance.

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  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    I think it goes in earlier although if it is a first time, then I could anticipate delay.
  • cassieB57
    cassieB57 Posts: 506 Forumite
    payments due on a bank holiday are processed early and will be paid the day before so if you are due on Friday (or Monday) it will go in Thursday; the jobcentre should have advised you of this when you signed, as some people will also be excused attendance if their signing day is Friday or Monday
  • Evilm
    Evilm Posts: 1,950 Forumite
    I know payments for sign ons next week are being set up today so they are not delayed. They even gave me a letter to that effect when I signed on last week.
  • Hi. I signed on on tuesday last week and still have not recieved any JSA paid yet.!!!! anyone else had the same problem? Will i recieve it late tomorrow?
  • dugdale_2
    dugdale_2 Posts: 470 Forumite
    nickrtaylor, your benefit should have been cleared by your bank by last Thursday (presuming you don't receive a giro payment by post). You will need to contact JCP to see why it hasn't been paid (missed evidence or sanction)
  • jazabelle
    jazabelle Posts: 1,707 Forumite
    Hi. I signed on on tuesday last week and still have not recieved any JSA paid yet.!!!! anyone else had the same problem? Will i recieve it late tomorrow?

    It took twelve weeks for me to get my first payment, so I wouldn't expect anything in one week.
    "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." - Orison Swett Marden
  • Strike
    Strike Posts: 54 Forumite
    I signed on earlier and they advised it will be in my account Thursday.
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