# Payment Cycles ## Introduction In a given program, disbursement to beneficiaries is done in cycles. The entire entitlement to a beneficiary may be split into cycles for reasons of availability of funds, certain conditions that the beneficiary has to meet or other factors. Further, the beneficiary list may also undergo a change in different cycles based on updated eligibility criteria. ## Cycle definition ## Beneficiary list update ## Splitting a beneficiary list across cycles A beneficiary list may be split across cycles such that disbursement to a subset of the list is done in one cycle while for the rest disbursement is done in the next cycle.\*\* {% hint style="info" %} \*\* This feature will be available in version 1.2.x of OpenG2P. {% endhint %} ## ### --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.openg2p.org/1.0.0/eligibility-and-enrolment/payment-cycles.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.