PIP Payment Dates 2026/27

The Short Answer

PIP payment dates in 2026/27 run on each claimant's own 4-weekly cycle; only bank holidays move them. Six England and Wales holidays remain this benefit year: 31 August 2026, 25 and 28 December 2026, 1 January 2027, and 26 and 29 March 2027. A payment due on any of those days usually arrives on the working day before. Every other date pays as normal.

When is the PIP payment 2026 dates?

There is no single national list of PIP payment dates; your dates repeat every 4 weeks from the day your decision letter set. How that cycle works is covered in When Is PIP Paid? Payment Days Explained. What a year-wide page can give you is the exceptions: the bank holidays that pull a payment forward, listed below for the whole of 2026/27.

Payment Calendar in Detail

Six dates change PIP payments this benefit year, all of them bank holidays in England and Wales. Payments due on a holiday usually arrive on the working day before it. Weekends around the holidays fold into the same early payment.

Last checked: 7 August 2026

An early payment does not change the amount or the cycle. The next payment still lands 4 weeks after the original due date, so one longer-feeling gap follows each holiday adjustment. Budgeting for late December matters most: money arriving on 24 December must stretch to a January date.

Projecting your own calendar takes one bank statement. Find your last PIP payment date, add 28 days repeatedly, and adjust any date that lands on a holiday above. In most years two payments fall in the same calendar month once, which is the normal 13-payment pattern.

A worked projection shows the method end to end. A claimant paid on Friday 4 September 2026 adds 28 days repeatedly and adjusts once:

Last checked: 7 August 2026

The single adjustment in the table is typical of a whole year: most cycles touch one holiday, some touch none, and the projection takes five minutes once.

Example cycle: payment day Friday, first due date in the year Friday 17 April 2026, England and Wales bank holidays. Your own dates depend on the day in your decision letter.

1. April 2026

   • Fri 17

2. May 2026

   • Fri 15

3. June 2026

   • Fri 12

4. July 2026

   • Fri 10

5. August 2026

   • Fri 7

6. September 2026

   • Fri 4

7. October 2026

   • Fri 2
   • Fri 30

8. November 2026

   • Fri 27

9. December 2026

   • Thu 24 (paid early for a bank holiday)

10. January 2027

    • Fri 22

11. February 2027

    • Fri 19

12. March 2027

    • Fri 19

Paid on the due datePaid early for a bank holidayMonth with two payments

• Due Friday 25 December 2026 (Christmas Day), normally paid Thursday 24 December 2026.

Last checked: 29 September 2026

Source: GOV.UK bank holidays feed; GOV.UK, PIP: how much you'll get

The same projection answers the month-by-month searches directly. Whether PIP pays early in any given month of 2026/27 depends only on whether that month contains one of the six listed holidays and whether your cycle lands on it: June, July and most other months contain no England and Wales holiday at all, so every June or July payment arrives exactly on cycle. The busy months are late August, late December and late March, and the table above already prices each of them.

Scotland pays Adult Disability Payment on its own schedule, and Scottish bank holidays differ; this table covers PIP in England and Wales. The DWP confirms exact holiday arrangements close to each holiday, so treat the arrival column as the usual pattern rather than a promise.

Reading the table against your own cycle

Most claimants meet at most two of the six dates, because a 28-day cycle passes each calendar date only once per cycle. A Monday payday meets the two Monday holidays, 31 August 2026 and 29 March 2027, only when the cycle lands on those exact Mondays. A Friday payday faces Christmas Day and New Year's Day the same way. Checking takes one projection: run your dates forward and see which, if any, collide.

An early payment changes the arrival date, never the amount or the entitlement period. The money still covers the same 4 weeks, and the following payment still arrives 28 days after the original due date. December's early payment therefore has to stretch up to a week longer than usual, which is worth planning for in advance rather than discovering in January.

The dates that do not appear in the table

Weekends need no adjustment of their own: PIP payment days are weekdays, so ordinary Saturdays and Sundays never interrupt the cycle. Local and unofficial observances change nothing either; only the bank holidays above move money. And the April uprating date is absent deliberately, because uprating changes amounts, not dates. The first payment covering post-April weeks simply arrives at the new rates, on the usual day, as the PIP rates 2026 table shows.

Dates on this page are re-checked against the official bank holiday list on the stamp shown above, and the page refreshes each benefit year as the new list publishes.

Six holidays, one projection method, and a bookmark: payment dates for the whole benefit year, solved in one page.

Work Out Your Number

Project your own dates from your cycle, then check the amounts behind them: work out your payment calendar. Rates for each payment are in PIP Rates 2026/27.