DWP payment dates - when they go back to normal after Easter Bank Holiday weekend

After the Easter Weekend, payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to return to their normal schedule. Over the holiday period, millions of people receive their payments early.

But payments should never be late, even during Bank Holidays. Instead, the DWP ensures claimants get their money earlier than usual, so they are never left without funds. We've put together a guide on when payments will return to their regular schedule after the disruption caused by the Easter Weekend bank holiday.

As Good Friday (March 29) and Easter Monday (April 1) were both public holidays, anyone expecting to receive any of the following payments from the DWP on either of those dates would have received their money early on Thursday, March 28.

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If you were due a payment before Good Friday, then you should have been paid as usual. From April 2, all payments should return to their regular schedule - with those expecting to receive deposits on their specific days all getting money on time, reports Bristol Live.

The four-day Easter Weekend always impacts benefit payments because of where it falls in the week, with Friday and Monday being some of the busiest for DWP amounts being sent out. Now that the first two bank holidays of the year have come and gone, attention now turns to May.

In May, there are two bank holidays, which will see those expecting payments on either May 6 or May 27, paid early. The next bank holidays in England and Wales are as follows:.