PIP and DLA payments may come through early for some people next week - how to check

People receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance (DLA) may receive their payments early next week.

There's an English bank holiday coming up that will affect benefit payments that fall on that date for Scottish claimants.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed to the Daily Record that payment dates will change for everyone across the UK due to be paid on Monday, August 31.

This means that if your payment is due on that date, you will now receive it on the previous working day - Friday, August 28.

The change in payment date will also affect anyone due to receive any of the following benefits on Monday, August 31:

• Universal Credit

• State Pension

• Pension Credit

• Child Benefit

• Tax Credits

• Attendance Allowance

• Carer’s Allowance

• Employment Support Allowance

• Income Support

• JobSeeker’s Allowance

It might not be a bank holiday in Scotland, but DWP payments due on August 31 will be affected (Getty)

When will the money go into my account?

Depending on who you bank with, funds are available shortly after midnight on the day they are due - usually in the early hours.

Some banks deposit money into your account around 11.30pm so you can withdraw it before midnight on benefit payday. Others will release your funds at midnight or just a few minutes after.

But in some cases you have to wait until between 2am and 3am, while others will not let you touch your money until at least 6am on payday.

These are the typical paying-in times for banks:

 

• Clydesdale, Yorkshire - 11.30pm the night before to 12.30am

 

• Lloyds - midnight to 1am

 

• Bank of Scotland - midnight to 1.30am

 

• Metro Bank - midnight to 2am

 

• Barclays, Co-op - 1am to 2am

 

• Natwest, RBS, Ulster Bank, Nationwide - 2am to 3am

 

• Halifax - 3am to 4am

 

• HSBC, Santander - 6am to 9am