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A COVID-19 Update from Our Commissioner

March 19, 2020 • By

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Last Updated: February 21, 2023

I want you to hear directly from me how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting our services. The first thing you should know is that we continue to pay benefits. Be aware that scammers may try to trick you into thinking the pandemic is stopping your Social Security payments but that is not true. Don’t be fooled.

To protect you and help stop the spread of this coronavirus, we cannot accept visitors in our offices at this time. There are several other ways you can get help. Many services are available online. If you have a critical need that you cannot address online, we can help you over the phone.

Please visit our website to find out what services we are continuing and which ones we are suspending, how to contact us, and important information about deadlines we are extending to ease the burden on you and medical providers during this pandemic.

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Andrew Saul, Commissioner, Social Security Administration

Commissioner of Social Security Administration (June 17, 2019 - July 9, 2021)

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  1. Johnny B.

    This is the last time I will post in this thread. Yes people on SSI will receive 1200 as well this info comes directly from the SENATE OF FINANCE . Scroll down and click on the “Section by Section” PDF you will see it under Subtitle B

    “Subtitle B – Rebates and Other Individual Provisions
    Section 2201. 2020 recovery rebates for individuals
    All U.S. residents with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 ($150,000 married), who are
    not a dependent of another taxpayer and have a work eligible social security number, are
    eligible for the full $1,200 ($2,400 married) rebate. In addition, they are eligible for an
    additional $500 per child. This is true even for those who have no income, as well as those
    whose income comes entirely from non-taxable means-tested benefit programs, such as SSI
    benefits.”

    https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/grassley-releases-phase-3-coronavirus-response-legislation

    • Just M.

      Haha I saw a post you posted earlier or yesterday, was coming back to tell you what I found… But you found it 🙂

    • Sandra P.

      thanks for the informative info Johnny, Bravo!

    • vincent l.

      as a disabled Vietnam vet who scrapes by on SSI of $745 a month who is deeply in debt to predatory money lenders I pray to God you are right!

  2. Sandra H.

    I was born and raised in this damn country, my maternal grandmother’s family dates back to the first ships. My mother is on Social Security, my wife is on disability and has been for most if her adult life. I do not work because my wife’s disability is not conducive to me having a job outside the home. (Anxiety issues and the chance of seizures and needing to accompany her to doctors and so forth made it impossible). I am a 24/7 caretaker for both my mother is basically blind. I have no income of my own. I have no insurance and no medical though both of them have medicare and medicaid. I already get nothing though I have been told by others on more than one occasion That I qualify for assistance of my own. Any time I have tried to look into it though i have been met with “There is nothing that I can do, your state doesn’t offer those benefits.” So here we go again with me being ineligible and them being ineligible and not being able to make the food we can afford and qualify for last as long as it should, add in on top of that that I’m lucky to FIND the food now as local stores are bare and getting worse every time I go. We already only eat one meal a day, what more can you do to us?

  3. Will S.

    Would a adult child dependent who is on SSI who lives with their parents get a stimulus check?

    • Tony R.

      I would like to know this as well.

    • Tony R.

      Are individuals with little to no income or those on means-tested federal benefits, such as SSI, eligible for a recovery rebate? Yes, there is no qualifying income requirement. Even individuals with $0 of income are eligible for a rebate so long as they are not the dependent of another taxpayer and have a work-eligible SSN.

      That would be no!

  4. John M.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/coronavirus-stimulus-check-calculator/

  5. Jim E.

    People on Social Security are eligible to receive the coronavirus relief payment as long as their total income does not exceed the limit. Low-income Americans on Social Security do not need to file a tax return. As long as they received an SSA-1099 form (the Social Security benefit statement), the federal government will be able to send them a payment via the usual way they get their Social Security payment. Retirees and people on disability are both eligible for the special payment.

    • Get a.

      Not the bums on SSI ??‍♂️??‍♂️?? some people can’t read

    • anyone o.

      I have no idea what that form is….Can you be more specific on the form? Do they send it out as a result of this stimulus payment (if so do i have to find & submit form?), or was it send when I was approved for SSI?

      THX!

      • Shameless

        No you do not get ssa-1099 if you are on SSI only SSDI etc receive them don’t believe me then Google it

      • jimjam

        like shamelees quoted, you get a ssa-1099 at first of year incase you file taxes, it you didnt make enough like me i never have in 20 years but still get a 1099 and i save the all in a file so they alread have your information and will send it out how you already receive your payment now, i think they will be sending out letters like the cost of living letters explaining it and how much and when about you will get it, i have direct deposit

  6. Martin T.

    Johnny Bravo, where in the bill did you see that? I have read the bill as well. If you want a direct location of where it states it in the bill, please read pages 141-149 ‘SEC. 6428. 2020 and beyond. Specifically on page 149 reads as follows.
    (‘‘(B) if the individual has not filed a tax return for such individual’s first taxable year beginning in 2018, use information with respect to such individual for calendar year 2019 pro-6 vided in ‘‘(i) Form SSA-1099, Social Security 8 Benefit Statement, or ‘‘(ii) Form RRB-1099, Social Security Equivalent Benefit Statement.”)

    So people in this forum can stop scaring people on disability now. Thank you. Also, if you are on SSDI, SSI, make sure to check with Social Security after the bill passes to find out more information on if your spouse whom may not be working and didn’t pay taxes is “Eligible” under your your SSDI and/or SSI. Social Security has all of this information on hand because you report to them. Also make sure to check if you can claim 500$ per child that you may have. These payments sound to be 1,200 per person, $500 per child. I have not read anywhere about 200$ increase that was floating around.
    Until the bill is passed on Friday and Social Security is made aware of all the information, don’t fret about it so much. Wait for Social Security to respond to your questions. Everyone has these questions and I hope I was able to answer to the best of my knowledge.
    You can read the bill yourself as well as download it in PDF form. Source: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820759545/read-2-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill

    • Johnny B.

      If those of us on SSI was getting a cut it would have been in the bill just like the 2009 stimulus bill that’s the reality we won’t get nothing out of this one don’t get people hope up just for them to go into depression

      • Martin T.

        Johnny, I believe everyone who reads the bill where I pointed out will not be bothered by you trying to scare them. It is in the bill that people on SSDI and SSI will receive their portion. The IRS is to look for a tax return and if they can’t find one, they are to look into Social Security as stated above. If you aren’t trying to scare people and are seriously worried, then don’t be. Wait until the bill has passed fully by Friday and then talk with Social Security to find out more information. Thank you -Martin T

        • Johnny B.

          That’s all I will do then. Thank you

  7. candie

    really sad people all ways down grading people with disability because some cant handle a job work but that ok becouse god loves us

  8. Johnny B.

    Well it is official I’ve read the bill people on SSI will not be seeing a dime … as expected a lot of people had their hopes up for nothing

    • CG

      You did not read jack stop lieing. Yes they will.

      • Johnny B.

        I hope so I am on SSI as well lol I wasn’t shaming I need this too

    • JR

      That sucks. I was screwed out of my SSDI by a garbage judge and bad appellate decision. The decision by the appelate court put my retroactive decision one month after my last date ensured. Now I’m being treated like I never payed into the system and getting screwed over again. This is absolute BS, my cost of fuel has gone up dramatically due to all the trips into town to find necessities (like TP and milk) that are constantly out of stock. So those bastsrds in congress hsve sh*t on us, the most vulnerable yet again, because they think we are the dregs and don’t matter.

      Well, my vote and voice do matter and I’m going to push to vote against those privelaged MF’rs in congress who pretended we don’t exist.

      • TiredOfIt

        Can fully relate! They screw us every chance they get. And no this is not some gravy train just anyone can get on. It’s next to impossible and takes YEARS for most.

        • JR

          Took me 4 years but my final appeal only went retroactive 2 years. A year of it I lived in my van in my friend’s yard (through a hard winter and numerous snow storms) because I only recieved $90-$107mo GA + around $120mo in food stamps (I can’t remember the exact amount of the FS) and couldn’t afford rent anywhere. If it wasn’t for the charity of my friends from church I probably would have died from exposure. The last year of it I moved in with my ex brother-in-law and kept him company until he died. Shortly after that I won my case but was homeless again because my SSI income wasn’t enough to qualify to rent anywhere and rent assistance in my area is many years backlogged. I used my back pay to buy a 5th wheel and truck, now I pay rent for a space on a family member’s property. Every month was a struggle to survive but I learned how to stretch every dollar to it’s max and started to live fairly comfortably. Then this pandemic happened and I have expenses I never planned for. I got pretty sick a couple weeks ago with with all the symptoms associated with this virus so I hope I’m through it. We had several confirmed cases less than 20mi away a week before. I’m not afraid of it anymore and keep in daily prayer for everyone else.

          $1200, or any extra assistance for that matter, would be extremely helpful. If not for my own sake, but everyone else’s. I’m very fortunate in my position and will make it through this no matter what, but not everyone else is on such solid ground and we need to look out for each other.

          I read all 880 pages of the bill and saw nothing that said we’d recieve any help but Johnny Bravo posted a link to Sen. Grassley’s statement that we would. I sincerely hope it’s true because the wording of the bill seems to say the opposite. The bill only speaks of SS recipients who get an SSA-1099 as qualified to recieve the credit.

          • vincent l.

            I’m a Vietnam vet that worked my entire life until 2001 when a drunk hit and run driver ended my life and left permanently disabled in a wheelchair unable to work also, I exist with me rescued dogs in a broken down mobile home with no heat or air and floors with holes in them, I’m 1/2 a month in the hole already to predatory lenders!

  9. Supperdodo

    Ssi are not getting the stimulas check they call it the federal welfare program those are the ones whom never worked to pay into the system or not enough into to it and that be the one’s who have under 10 years of countable work, and all the rest will get it, seniors, disabled, retired, so long as those who put in countable 10+ plus years of work , thats what i read what the house bill said its the same way back when Obama sent out checks you do two thing # 1 wait # 2 see wait n see for your selfs ,

  10. TJD

    https://thecollegeinvestor.com/33324/coronavirus-stimulus-checks/

    “For Those On Social Security, SSDI, or SSI

    For those on Social Security as part of retirement or through the Social Security Disability Insurance program can have their Social Security Administration data used directly to claim the stimulus check – no tax return will be required.

    It appears the final version of the bill will also include payments to those whose income comes entirely from non-taxable benefits, such as SSI benefits. “

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