COVID-19, Online Services

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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Comments

  1. jen

    my husband and i both receive ssi benefits will we both get 1200 each??

    • Life

      Yes

  2. Kari

    I’m on ssdi ihope they put it on our government direct express card that we get our monthly check on.instead of waiting a long time for a check to come.

  3. Supperdodo

    Dear ABBY,,,? Whoops wrong place or is it?

  4. Jerry B.

    Regardless of whether or not I get this extra money, I am not going to lose sleep over it. I am a single guy who makes enough to make ends meet on my current income and I am truly grateful for it in my current circumstances. Hopefully everyone gets a check who actually deserves it and not the ones who THINK they deserve it (you know who you are). Stay Well and Stay Healthy!

  5. Eddie P.

    Due to medical issues I can’t work. I started receiving SSDI in December 2019. People who are disabled like me want to work. We live in my opinion quarantined daily. Not enough money to go anywhere. I had to exhaust my retirement savings for bills, medical expenses, food etc. while waiting out the 5 month waiting period. I had to file bankruptcy and will lose my home in a few months. I don’t want anybody to feel sorry for me, but if there’s money to jump start the economy with additional UEI funds, why can’t they add funds to the SSA, SSDI recipients? Another question, this $600.00 added to UEI weekly benefits will be taxed as income, will this money also boost a person’s income for SS benefits when they retire? I just wished the government would look out for the seniors a little more.

  6. Debra D.

    I have a question concerning the stimulus. Based on the news reports I have read the child has to be 16 or under for the parent(s) to receive the $500. My son is 19 and receives SSI for his disability. Is there an age min/max for people receiving SSI to be eligible for the stimulus? I did not see one in any of the news reports I have read. How will that work? Is he eligible to receive a stimulus check of his own; he is a senior this year?

  7. Dewey M.

    Come on…. have you looked at the package… huge payments to congress, endowment for the arts, $1 trilliion going to PORK. Someone makes $75,000 and i make $10,000… so i need to tighten my belt? Also a lot of those who make additional money … did file taxes. Its leaving the rest of us …. who may not have payed taxes last year….. but did are whole life …. which is the money you are using… not eligible. Does this make any sense look at the disparity. The poor and disabled
    are totally being left out of this. Whats next…… when this is all over they do away with or reduce SS? They already took over a trillion dollars from our retirement fund. Oh…. and those who work get to draw unemployment……. PLUS and added $600 a week and gets the checks. Anyone else feeling screwed here?

  8. Leonard l.

    I think it’s burocratic bullshit I’m on social security disability and after working 20 years just to make 900.00 a month and I can’t get a stimulus check because I can’t file a tax return so im exempt . once again people receiving ssi or ssdi get nothing . Total bullshit if anybody should receive the checks it’s us.

    • Joyce C.

      Yes you will get a check!!!!
      If they have automatic deposit info in your name you will get it deposited to your checking account!
      Otherwise you will get a paper check by mail….
      Minimum 1200.00

  9. Sheila H.

    I am glad to hear today that ALL social security Beneficiaries are eligible for the COVID relief stimulus, but how do SSI recipients file a tax return in order to receive stimulus checks, if our benefits are considered. “not taxable income”? Is it truly necessary to do so? Would a be a Zero liability return? Do we file a claim with SSA to get it. Someone plz help answer these questions for me. I’m confused still.
    Thank u.

  10. Ingeborg S.

    I am a 51-year-old paraplegic (born with cerebral palsy, disabled further by a fall). I have lIved in s nursing home since 2003. My sole source of income is SSI/SSDI, most of which is paid directly to the home; $30 is set aside as a personal monthly allowance.

    My extremely low fixed incomre has made filing a tax return unnecessary for most of my life. I have never bwwn married or had children; nor does any taxpayer claim me as s dependent, Am I eligiblr for a stimulua check under the CARES Act? If I do qualify, how much money will go to me directly (as opposed to the nursing home)?

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