If you would like to take part in our website visitor survey, please visit the site and then come back and select this link to take part in the survey.

Website of the UK government

Please note that this website has a UK government accesskeys system.

Public services all in one place

Main menu

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Newsroom

Postal strike – how will it affect DWP benefits?

  • Published: Thursday, 5 November 2009

Postal services may still be disrupted because of the mail strikes. Find out how to make sure you are not affected by any future postal strikes.

What can you do so you are not affected in the future?

Strike action by postal workers is always likely to disrupt the delivery of cheques to customers.

You can make sure you are not affected by any future strike by postal workers by having your benefit, pension or allowance paid into a:

  • bank account
  • building society account
  • Post Office card account

If you would like further information on direct payments, contact your usual payment office.

Further information

More on Directgov

Access keys