- Child Benefit rates
- When is your next Child Benefit payment due?
- When to expect your first Child Benefit payment
- Understanding your Child Benefit Award Notice
- Bank holidays and Child Benefit payments
- Child Benefit payments stopped or gone down?
- How Child Benefit, tax credits and Guardian's Allowance are paid
- How to change your bank account details for Child Benefit payments
- You haven't received your usual Child Benefit payment
Bank holidays and Child Benefit payments
Your Child Benefit payments are made every week or every four weeks, depending on what you chose when you claimed. If your usual payment day falls on a bank holiday, you should get your payment earlier than normal.
On this page:
- Payments over bank holidays
- Bank holiday payment dates for 2009
- You haven't received your payment
- More useful links
Payments over bank holidays
From time to time, your normal Child Benefit payment day may fall on the same day as a bank holiday. This will often be a Monday, but not always. When this happens, you'll get your payment on the last working day before the bank holiday. So if the bank holiday is on a Monday, you'll get your payment on the Friday before.
This happens for all Child Benefit payments across the whole of the UK, even if a bank holiday only applies in one part of the UK. For example, Monday 13 July 2009 is only a bank holiday in Northern Ireland. But all customers in the UK who are usually paid on a Monday will get their payment on Friday 10 July 2009.
You can check the table below to see if your payments will be affected by bank holidays. And if they will be, you can see the date when you should get paid.
Bank holiday payment dates for 2009
Month |
Date of bank holiday |
Date your payment will be made |
|---|---|---|
April |
13 April 2009 (Easter Monday) |
09 April 2009 |
May |
04 May 2009 |
01 May 2009 |
|
25 May 2009 |
22 May 2009 |
July |
13 July 2009 |
10 July 2009 |
August |
31 August 2009 |
28 August 2009 |
December |
28 December 2009 |
24 December 2009 |
You haven't received your payment
If you haven't been paid you should double check your bank account. Sometimes electronic banking systems aren't completely up to date. So it's possible that your payment is just a bit late.
If it's definitely not in your account you should contact the Child Benefit Helpline on Tel 0845 302 1444 or textphone 0845 302 1474. The helpline is open between 8.00 am to 8.00 pm, seven days a week except Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day.
More useful links
Check online to find out when your next Child Benefit payment is due
