Children's allowance January 2013

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According to lady in my local post office,
First payment in January next year will be Wednesday 2nd

Rosedust84

Will this be the same for bank payments?

amtw

At the very latest. It may even go in as usual on the first Tuesday (1st Jan).

jjll

Did anyone get paid into bank today????????

Anfield Road

I just checked the bank and nothing is there!??...was expecting the payment today as Jan 1st is Tuesday next which is a bank holiday & it's usually in the bank on the Sat if it falls on a bank holiday like this...so we have to wait till Wed 2nd??.

jjll

Anfield Road wrote: »

I just checked the bank and nothing is there!??...was expecting the payment today as Jan 1st is Tuesday next which is a bank holiday & it's usually in the bank on the Sat if it falls on a bank holiday like this...so we have to wait till Wed 2nd??.

Thats what im guessing as nothing will move tonight ,sunday or monday

Anfield Road

From www.welfare.ie....seems we have to wait until Tuesday 1st Jan eventhough I don't know how they are crediting accounts on a bank holiday, it can go in on Monday 31st as it's a banking day but Tues is not??. Last year the childrens allowence was in the bank on the Sat & any bank holidays that fell this year the payment was always in the bank on the Saturday.

Copied below from the website:

Payment directly to an account in a financial institution – (Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT))
Weekly Payments

Customers paid weekly will receive their normal payment(s) and an advance payment during the week beginning Monday 10 December, 2012. The advance payment will be the payment(s) due in the week beginning Monday 17 December 2012 (excluding Carers Benefit, Disablement Benefit, Maternity Benefit and Health & Safety Benefit Payments).

Payments for Maternity Benefit and Health & Safety Benefit due Thursday 20 December 2012 will be paid on the Monday 17 December 2012.

All payments due the week commencing 24 December 2012 will be paid on your normal payment day the week commencing 17 December 2012.

Payments due on Monday 31 December 2012 for Jobseekers Allowance, Jobseekers Benefit, Illness Benefit, Partial Capacity Benefit and Supplementary Welfare Allowance will be paid on Friday 21 December 2012.

Payments due on Tuesday 1 January 2013 for Jobseekers Allowance, Jobseekers Benefit, Illness Benefit, Partial Capacity Benefit and Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance will be paid on Monday 31 December 2012.

Payments for Child Benefit and Household Benefit due on Tuesday 1 January 2013 will be paid on Tuesday 1 January 2013.

jjll

Anfield Road wrote: »

From www.welfare.ie....seems we have to wait until Tuesday 1st Jan eventhough I don't know how they are crediting accounts on a bank holiday, it can go in on Monday 31st as it's a banking day but Tues is not??. Last year the childrens allowence was in the bank on the Sat & any bank holidays that fell this year the payment was always in the bank on the Saturday.

Copied below from the website:

Payment directly to an account in a financial institution – (Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT))
Weekly Payments

Customers paid weekly will receive their normal payment(s) and an advance payment during the week beginning Monday 10 December, 2012. The advance payment will be the payment(s) due in the week beginning Monday 17 December 2012 (excluding Carers Benefit, Disablement Benefit, Maternity Benefit and Health & Safety Benefit Payments).

Payments for Maternity Benefit and Health & Safety Benefit due Thursday 20 December 2012 will be paid on the Monday 17 December 2012.

All payments due the week commencing 24 December 2012 will be paid on your normal payment day the week commencing 17 December 2012.

Payments due on Monday 31 December 2012 for Jobseekers Allowance, Jobseekers Benefit, Illness Benefit, Partial Capacity Benefit and Supplementary Welfare Allowance will be paid on Friday 21 December 2012.

Payments due on Tuesday 1 January 2013 for Jobseekers Allowance, Jobseekers Benefit, Illness Benefit, Partial Capacity Benefit and Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance will be paid on Monday 31 December 2012.

Payments for Child Benefit and Household Benefit due on Tuesday 1 January 2013 will be paid on Tuesday 1 January 2013.

But it cant go in bank on a tuesday so dont get it and no money moves on a sunday night for monday so looking like weds

upinthesky

none in my bank either im aib.

upinthesky

Sniper230976 wrote: »

it seems they have delayed the payments until 1st of january when there new changes will come into place where they money for each child will be reduced the crafty slimy bastards

You hit the nail on the head. Never thought of that

Anfield Road

Sniper230976 wrote: »

it seems they have delayed the payments until 1st of january when there new changes will come into place where they money for each child will be reduced the crafty slimy bastards

Totally correct!, more lies from Joan Burton & Co to take as much as they can off us!. So many were sure it was in the bank today & have been left disappointed. Bet their buddies pension payments were on time!!:mad:

Just had a look back at last year, it was in the bank on Sat 31st December to cover Tues 2nd Jan & the bank holiday, and in August this year it was in the bank on the Sat to cover the bank holiday so yes they have done this on purpose!

Rosedust84

Smart bastards..

Im so annoyed I was relying on it coming in early

January

There's a bank roll on Monday night as Monday is a normal working day so payments will be in as normal on Tuesday, as it says on welfare.ie

Nothing crafty. The Bank Holiday falls on Monday usually so it comes in on Fridays bank roll, which means it's in on the Saturday. But because they are working Monday they can have it in as normal on the Tuesday.

Next year, since New Years Day is a Wednesday it won't be in until Tuesday the 7th of Jan.

Honeymummy2

ive been told by some people that it will be in the bank on Monday.does anyone think it will.

Sniper230976

January wrote: »

There's a bank roll on Monday night as Monday is a normal working day so payments will be in as normal on Tuesday, as it says on welfare.ie

Nothing crafty. The Bank Holiday falls on Monday usually so it comes in on Fridays bank roll, which means it's in on the Saturday. But because they are working Monday they can have it in as normal on the Tuesday.

Next year, since New Years Day is a Wednesday it won't be in until Tuesday the 7th of Jan.

thats all well and good but tell that to the people sitting at there house with not a penny for food and bills until tuesday...there going to have a great new year arent they not....:mad:

eimear74

just checked my bank - ulster bank ...... not in ! :mad:
happy new years my ass......

cee_jay

eimear74 wrote: »

just checked my bank - ulster bank ...... not in ! :mad:
happy new years my ass......

Www.welfare.ie states the payment day is Tuesday, today is Monday. You should not be expecting it in your bank account today, it will be there tomorrow as stated.

GerardKeating

lisar816 wrote: »

You hit the nail on the head. Never thought of that

The payment is for January 2013, it would be at the new rate even if they paid it last week.

Mimikyu

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upinthesky

ok thought today was a bank holidday, but its not so i understand why its not in.

sole Saffi

No money HAppy New Year!!!

Lisab236

If ever there is a bank holiday the payments have always gone into the bank for the previous Saturday. This has been happening for a few years now and it was not the case this time round. Times are tough and people are more dependent on their payments, especially at this time of year. There should have been some notice put out for people that get payments through there bank account.

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GillyBilly

Weird that's it's not paid as it usually would be, but half of you are implying that you were relying on it for some sort of new year celebration.

It's due in on Tuesday. If its not there Tuesday, complain on Wednesday.

It's supposed to go towards looking after and supporting your kids, not the owner of your local off -licence.

GillyBilly

Lisab236 wrote: »

Times are tough and people are more dependent on their payments, especially at this time of year. There should have been some notice put out for people that get payments through there bank account.

Well said.

Mimikyu

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January

Lisab236 wrote: »

If ever there is a bank holiday the payments have always gone into the bank for the previous Saturday. This has been happening for a few years now and it was not the case this time round. Times are tough and people are more dependent on their payments, especially at this time of year. There should have been some notice put out for people that get payments through there bank account.

Yes but that's when the Bank Holiday is on a Monday, not a Tuesday. It's an unusual one this year but had the Bank Holiday been on the Monday it would have been paid on the Saturday as normal.

There was notice put out. There's a big sticky at the top of this forum with a link to the Christmas payment arrangements posted on Welfare.ie. There was plenty of notice as it was made available early December.

leanonme

January wrote: »

Yes but that's when the Bank Holiday is on a Monday, not a Tuesday. It's an unusual one this year but had the Bank Holiday been on the Monday it would have been paid on the Saturday as normal.

There was notice put out. There's a big sticky at the top of this forum with a link to the Christmas payment arrangements posted on Welfare.ie. There was plenty of notice as it was made available early December.

Even tho what you are saying is clear, people will still give out about it not coming in early.

Tuesday is a bank holiday not Monday, i.e the banks are open today you can go in an do any business you like in there today. So your money should be in as normal tomorrow, if its not then complain.

If people are relying on a payment to come in early then they are very foolish, as you can never rely on that method to ensure you have money on time.

upinthesky

I dont think people were wanting to have parties! i think its because if you are on social welfare it has been a week with out any paayment.

I no we got a double week but i spent that on christmas toys for my kids, which i would say most people did. So now they might not get paid till wednesday or thursday, i was ok as my partner got a payment today and its all gone on food and coal

January

I'm on social welfare and the double week was saved for Christmas week because I knew there'd be no payment then. It's not that hard to save during the year to buy presents for your kids. You didn't go a week without payment, you got paid for it and spent it in advance.

leanonme

January wrote: »

I'm on social welfare and the double week was saved for Christmas week because I knew there'd be no payment then. It's not that hard to save during the year to buy presents for your kids. You didn't go a week without payment, you got paid for it and spent it in advance.

I'm in the same boat. Saved my double payment to get me through the last week. I don't have kids, but I do buy presents for my god kids, and other people in my life and had to save through out the year for all of them.

Also just to the post above, if your partner got a payment today, did you not receive one today. Because all the couples I know get there payments the one day, seeing as they would be claiming as a couple, like there are only two options for couples who are claiming, and one is that they have a joint claim, where one individual claims for the other, and the other is two individuals claim separate but as a means assessed couple.

upinthesky

leanonme wrote: »

I'm in the same boat. Saved my double payment to get me through the last week. I don't have kids, but I do buy presents for my god kids, and other people in my life and had to save through out the year for all of them.

Also just to the post above, if your partner got a payment today, did you not receive one today. Because all the couples I know get there payments the one day, seeing as they would be claiming as a couple, like there are only two options for couples who are claiming, and one is that they have a joint claim, where one individual claims for the other, and the other is two individuals claim separate but as a means assessed couple.

No i'm on btea the social welfare office preferred us to have separate claims but we both get a reduced rate we have 3 children he gets 201 and i get 231 an increase for btea

I no it is easier to get one payment when were both on jsa as it saves two having to go to the post office but that's the way they want it. Dont mind at all what else would i be doing

I get paid thursday's

alie

They won't pay it into bank accounts till tomarrow as the cuts come into being 1st January.

January

alie wrote: »

They won't pay it into bank accounts till tomarrow as the cuts come into being 1st January.

The cuts came into effect on 1st Jan last year and we were still paid on the Saturday because of the bank holiday at the lower rate. It's not because of the cuts, it's just because the bank holiday fell on a Tuesday.

alie

It's against the law for them to touch our money earlier and they are a lot of robbing so and so,s, the banks and post offices had a good break last week, they weren't open on last Thursday and it wasn't a bank holiday, put many of us out.

NinjaTruncs

alie wrote: »

They won't pay it into bank accounts till tomarrow as the cuts come into being 1st January.

As previously stated, the CA is paid in advance, the payment due tomorrow is for January, when the cut begins. I'm due back dated CA in the next payment and the backdated amount is at the old rate, even though it'll be paid in January.

cee_jay

alie wrote: »

It's against the law for them to touch our money earlier and they are a lot of robbing so and so,s, the banks and post offices had a good break last week, they weren't open on last Thursday and it wasn't a bank holiday, put many of us out.

Social Welfare offices around the country were closed on 25th and 26th December only. They were back open at 9:30am on 27th.

Mod note: this thread is going nowhere. The Christmas Arrangements have been clearly published on www.welfare.ie. this thread is achieving nothing and a lot of posts are skating a very thin line as being against the charter.
As stated by numerous posters, Child Benefit will be paid tomorrow.
Thread locked.