45 want's to make it "Loyalty Day"
But nothing is closed.

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Hmm...
Same day as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
Why chosed Trump that day?

Hey is today an official holiday in the US?

I ask as I got My check deposited in My bank account back on Saturday...

Yeah it seems weird to Me. I searched on Bing and on Google, I didn't find a thing about today and the US.

Nope. Not a holiday.

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~Sue~

He likes hijacking things - like the Feast of Beltane (1st May)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Bank being nice - there's a first.
It may be that those paying you (not the bank) did the transfer a bit early so they could enjoy a long weekend........

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

...Well I get my salary on the 23rd of the month, or the last banking day before if the 23rrd is a weekend or a Bank Holiday.
(Apart from December's which is paid on the last Banking Day before the 21st)
This is really nice for me as I get a bit of interest before the big bills go out, and still manage to maintain the minimum balance for long enough to get the "balance bonus".

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

In the US, it's US law, SSI must be paid on the 1st of the month or on the first weekday before the 1st of each month, this applies to when the 1st is an official holiday, or when the 1st lands on a weekend, unofficial holidays do not count, and May 1st is very unofficial in the US.
Strange and weird.

Weird in the US.
But not here.
It's a red day meaning holiday:)
And Walpurgis is celibrated the day before.

In the US, it's US law, SSI must be paid on the 1st of the month or on the first weekday before the 1st of each month, this applies to when the 1st is an official holiday, or when the 1st lands on a weekend, unofficial holidays do not count, and May 1st is very unofficial in the US.

Vic that may be but I don't think so, mine has always been paid the third week of the month.

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Here is also May Day the last day to file your tax declaration!
Many tries to do that at the last hour just for sport:)

Wrong again Chris - it varies from company to company, and indeed in some companies between schemes (which must be a real nightmare for those doing those pensions "payrolls") - when I start to claim my pensions I will get three "company" pensions, on three different dates towards the end of the month. Plus the state pension. All very confusing.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Wrong again Chris - it varies from company to company, and indeed in some companies between schemes (which must be a real nightmare for those doing those pensions "payrolls") - when I start to claim my pensions I will get three "company" pensions, on three different dates towards the end of the month. Plus the state pension. All very confusing.

I agree with you on this. I do get one one the last working day, and the state one every 4 weeks but the other is paid in the middle of the month.

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Wrong again Chris - it varies from company to company, and indeed in some companies between schemes (which must be a real nightmare for those doing those pensions "payrolls") - when I start to claim my pensions I will get three "company" pensions, on three different dates towards the end of the month. Plus the state pension. All very confusing.

And when the time comes for you to claim your new state pension, you'll find it could be paid on any day of the week (mine's a Tuesday). And payment every four weeks means thirteen 'monthly' payments in the year - with no mention of what happens on either fixed or movable holidays. Maybe they're going to prevent the bankers going on holiday? Serve them right, if so.

I think Chris is right to suggest that there's a move towards smoothing out the cash flow through the banking system: the obvious corollary is that we'll have to stop making rigid assertions about other people's circumstances, based on experience drawn from other times or other places.

Do you get pensions in China or N Korea??

Interestingly, if a UK pension recipient retires to China or North Korea, they can still claim their pension, but it's subject to:

Delays to payments around US bank holidays

If you live abroad and your payment is due in the same week as a US bank holiday, it could arrive one day late. This is because a US company processes these payments.

(follow the 'if you live abroad' link in my previous post)

I wonder what guarantee the UK government have received that said 'US company' will always be empowered to make those payments?

Over here pensions get paid fortnightly.

1 group of pensions use to get paid every 2nd Wednesday while the other group got paid on every other Wednesday.

These days here you still get paid every fortnight, but the payment date coincides with the day that you became eligible for the said pension (that stopped all the regular Wednesday morning armored van robberies here before electronic transfers became regulation). ;-)

Cheers.

(that stopped all the regular Wednesday morning armored van robberies here before electronic transfers became regulation)

Nice country you live in. I didn't know that G4S, previously Group 4 Security, previously Securicor, were active in your part of the world?

G4S is the world's largest security company with operations in 125 countries and over 657,000 employees. The company is one of the world's largest employers and is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a secondary listing in Copenhagen.

Mayday, mayday...

Mayday, mayday...

May day, may day is an internationally recognised distress call as is SOS. Quite appropriate in the case of using G4S.

You are very off topic!
But...
May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on May 1.
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications.
SOS is used in morse code communications.

Mayday is also used for distress signals, as is pan pan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday

Pan-Pan. (from the French: panne—a breakdown). That's also French:)

M'aider is infinitive form of the finite phrase aidez-moi "help me" in French, but this imperative can hardly be behind the form Mayday. Nevertheless, it is possible. This has led some researchers to believe that the term in reality is an abbreviation of "Venez m'aider" meaning "Come and help me". Another option is that it comes from m'aidez, which is also not entirely correct in French. In any case, mayday is a rather wide English phonetic representation of the word. The word was not used until 1923 when a radio officer at London Croydon Airport was asked to answer an emergency call that could easily be understood by both pilots and ground crew. Because the communication was tight with Le Bourget in Paris, the choice fell on "Mayday".

SSI is not Social Security, or SSDI,

Vic I learned something, Thanx

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