If you’re making a new claim, you’ll get a notification about how often you want to be paid. You get this after your first payment.
If you’re already getting Universal Credit and have not had a notification, you can ask your work coach if you can be paid twice a month.
When you’re paid twice a month your first payment will be for a full month. You’ll get the first half of your second month’s payment a month after this. The second half will be paid 15 days later. This means there will be about a month and a half between your first payment and the full amount for your second month.
After this, you’ll be paid twice a month.
Example You get your first payment on 14 December. This payment is for a full month.
If you’re paid twice a month, you get half of your second payment on 14 January and the other half on 29 January.
You get paid on the 14th and 29th of each month after that.”
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