I am a freelance contract worker and I get paid at irregular intervals so I like to make manual payments when funds are available. I know I should pay more attention to these things but I've never had concerns about payments before now. I made a payment using the Make A Payment link and chose my regular current account on 20th and assumed same day processing as the help info suggests. By that I mean I assumed that my bank would receive a request for the payment the same day and that the funds would at least be reserved if not actually cleared the same day. I'm still waiting for a human to read and respond to my inquiry, via the message centre, as to why it took 7 days from my "making" the payment to my bank processing a direct debit request. If I get a response I'll update this but it seems that payments using a UK bank account as the source could be pending for 7 days or more - should anyone be wondering.
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