This will affect thousands of people
Some people on Universal Credit will unexpectedly miss out on the Department for Work and Pension's cost of living payment. It has been reported thousands of universal credit claimants will be blocked from the payment due to a payday issue, despite people expecting to see the first instalment of £326 enter their accounts between July 14 and July 31 - and a further £324 later this year.
The DWP and HMRC use a computer program to identify who is eligible to receive the payment, but for many benefit claimants, the computer says no. To receive the first instalment of £326, people must be entitled to a payment, or later found to be entitled to a payment, of universal credit for an assessment.
BirminghamLive was told by one claimant that they would miss out on the payment due to their wages being paid on a four-weekly basis rather than per calendar month. They said: "I get paid every four weeks which means 13 pay days a year, therefore once a year I get paid twice in that timescale for Universal Credit, so I am not eligible for the payment because of this, Not because I've earned more.
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