Activity Badges are to 2 days late or more

Since, the last update (12.1) on my phone and (5.1.1) on my watch, all of my badges have been 2 or more days late to showing up on my phone. This began on Veteran's Day with that special challenge badge. I received the award on my watch, but it never appeared on my phone. I was fine with that because I had heard that those can take up to 9 days to show up. However, now all my move, stand and exercise awards are no longer showing up after I complete them. I have always received my "longest move streak" award immediately after achieving my 3 goals.

I have re-paired my watch, reset my phone to no avail. I've spoken to apple 3 times, but still no fix. I thought I had found the fix by setting my calendar 2 days ahead. That did force my badges to show up, but once I fixed the date to the correct one, the badges continue to come 2 days late again.

It seems like there are some users out there who are still getting their badges right away. (Not special badges) I hope someone has found a fix for this. It was motivating to receive the move awards as you achieved them, not 2 days later. And, that's how it was before the update, so what happened?