Child Benefit

A customer pays for goods inside a shop. Christmas and New Year holidays can change the timing of benefit payments (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Boxing Day benefit payments will arrive early – check your Xmas date
With the holidays upon us, make sure you’re ready for any changes to your payments 🎄

A customer pays for goods inside a shop. Christmas bank holidays can change when benefit payments are made (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Christmas Day benefit payments will arrive early for millions of homes

A customer pays for goods inside a shop. Benefit payments due around Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s may arrive earlier this year (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

How Christmas Eve 2025 will affect benefit payments - what to expect

Benefit payments won't be missed over the New Year, but some are paid earlier due to bank holidays (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates over New Year 2025

HMRC is reviewing the suspension of child benefit for around 23,500 parents wrongly flagged as having left the UK (Photo: Pexels)

23,500 hit by HMRC benefit suspension - how to get your money back

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Parents warned to act fast to avoid losing over £2,500 in benefits

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Child Benefit payments to rise for millions of UK households in April

HMRC’s app attracted two million new users in 2024, it has been revealed. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

HMRC app attracted two million new users in 2024

New Year 2024: all the early DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates

Students react after opening their GCSE results at the City of London Academy Southwark (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Parents have just a week to update HMRC or risk losing benefit payment

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More households to receive payments of up to £500 - how to apply

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How to seek compensation as half a million hit by benefit delay

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Child Benefit: Money expert Martin Lewis offers advice as thousands concerned

Child Benefit is the Government's way of acknowledging the extra costs involved with raising a child - but it could be stopped or reduced for these reasons.

Parents warned that Child Benefit could be stopped for these reasons

Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance rates are set to increase with the new financial year in April.

Child Benefit payment is set to increase in April - here’s by how much

Benefits payments will rise in April (Photo: Adobe)

New rates for Universal Credit as payments rise from today

Child Benefit payments will increase in April (Photo: Adobe)

New Child Benefit rates from next month as payments to increase

Claimants should receive their benefits on the last working day before the bank holiday (Photo: Getty Images)

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Several changes have been made to UK benefits (Getty Images)

How to find out if your benefits have increased this month

Were you aware of the changes starting this month? (Photo: Shutterstock)

The 11 tax year changes just introduced and what it means for you

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You could be eligible for up to £300 of winter fuel allowance - how to apply

If you’re a recipient of benefits and are due to be paid over the bank holiday weekend, your payment days could change slightly as a result (Photo: Shutterstock)

Your benefits could be paid early this month - here's why

Over 250,000 parents are currently missing out on government food vouchers, which they are eligible to claim (Photo: Shutterstock)

More than 250,000 parents are missing out on free food vouchers - here’s how to ...

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Spring bank holiday payment dates: when tax credits, Child Benefit, Universal Cr...

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Shortage of cash puts two in five Yorkshire parents off starting a family

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls at Manchester Central ahead of the Labour Party Annual Conference.

Labour would raise retirement age and scrap winter fuel allowance

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