Housing Benefit: your payment dates

Your Housing Benefit payments. Find out when they're due and early payment dates for bank holidays

How often will I get paid?

Housing Benefit is paid four weeks in arrears and will usually be received by the Monday following the end of the four week period. You may receive your payment earlier depending on who you bank with.

For example, payment covering the period 6 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 will be received by Monday 3 February 2020; payment covering the period 3 February 2020 to 1  March 2020 will be received by 2 March 2020 and so on. 

All the payment dates for 2020 are shown in the table below. You can also download a copy of the Housing Benefit calendar which tells you when each payment is due.

An interim payment run is produced each week to pick up any missed changes in circumstances for past payment periods, covering up to the end of the current four week payment period. You may therefore receive an adjustment payment outside your usual four weekly payment.

Payment dates 2020

Related documents

• Housing Benefit payment dates 2020 (pdf)