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Supplemental Security Income Recipients Will Receive Automatic COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments

April 15, 2020 • By

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Last Updated: February 21, 2023

The Treasury Department announced that Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will receive automatic Economic Impact Payments directly from the Treasury Department.  Treasury anticipates these automatic payments to go out no later than early May.

SSI recipients with no qualifying children do not need to take any action in order to receive their $1,200 economic impact payment. The payments will be automatic.

SSI recipients who have qualifying children under age 17, however, should not wait for their automatic $1,200 individual payment. They should now go to the IRS’s webpage and visit the Non-Filers: Enter Your Payment Info section to provide their information. By taking proactive steps to enter information on the IRS website about them and their qualifying children, they will also receive the $500 per dependent child payment in addition to their $1,200 individual payment. If SSI beneficiaries in this group do not provide their information to the IRS soon, they will have to wait until later to receive their $500 per qualifying child.

This is great news for SSI recipients, and I want to remind recipients with qualifying children to go to IRS.gov soon so that you will receive the full amount of the Economic Impact Payments you and your family are eligible for. I also want to thank the dedicated employees of the Treasury Department, Social Security, and the Internal Revenue Service for making this happen and working non-stop on this issue.

SSI Recipients with Dependent Children Should Still Go To IRS.gov to Provide Their Information

Social Security retirement, survivors, and disability insurance beneficiaries (who don’t normally file taxes) will also qualify for automatic payments of $1,200 from Treasury. These payments are anticipated to start arriving around the end of April.

The Treasury Department, not Social Security, will make these automatic payments to beneficiaries. Recipients will generally receive the automatic payments by direct deposit, Direct Express debit card, or by paper check, just as they would normally receive their SSI or Social Security benefits.

For those SSI and Social Security retirement, survivors, and disability insurance beneficiaries, with dependent children, who use Direct Express debit cards, additional information will be available soon regarding the steps to take when claiming children under 17, on the IRS website.

Please note that the agency will not consider Economic Impact Payments as income for SSI recipients, and the payments are excluded from resources for 12 months.

For more information about Social Security retirement, survivors, and disability insurance beneficiaries, please see our most recent blog.

The eligibility requirements and other information about the Economic Impact Payments can be found on the IRS website. In addition, please continue to visit the IRS for the latest information.

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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. David W.

    Hi. What if I already filled out the form and I don’t have any dependents. Previously they said that everyone who get SSI should fill it out especially those with dependents. Will this have any impact?

    • V.V.

      Hi David, thank you for your question. You should receive the automatic payments by direct deposit, Direct Express debit card, or by paper check, just as you would normally receive your benefits. Treasury expects automatic payments for Social Security beneficiaries no later than the end of April and automatic payments for SSI recipients no later than early May.

  2. Pamcake

    I receive a tiny ss check every month. Why are checks not going out until May if the idea is to send relief to those with the smallest income first? That’s over 2 weeks from now. Besides, some have already received checks.

  3. Pamcake

    I thought the first recipients were supposed to be those on the lowest end of the income spectrum!! My little ss check is under $800 a month. Yet, the payments aren’t going out until May??!!

    • Anon

      At least you’ll actually get something. I’m on SSI. Live alone. But last year I lived with my parents. So I get nothing. $1200 would’ve been insanely helpful.

  4. Elizabeth

    My daughter is 7 and she receive ssi and im her payee , i believe my sister claimed her and my other child on this year tax return, But since she claimed them will me or her get the stulum check . and we i get the 1,200 or will i just get the 500 for her . how does that work

    • It

      She’s under 17 so you need to go to irs and fill out non filers for her. You should’ve gotten yours already unless someone is claiming you

    • V.V.

      Hi Elizabeth, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!

  5. Melinda W.

    I’m on SSI and have no dependents. I filed the non filers form anyway two days ago. Now they’re saying that we don’t need to. Did I mess it up?

    • David S.

      Yes. Sorry.

      • David W.

        And how do you know this? Or are you just being very helpful? If you don’t know then don’t say anything.

    • V.V.

      Hi Melinda, thank you for your question. You should receive the automatic payments by direct deposit, Direct Express debit card, or by paper check, just as you would normally receive your Social Security benefits. Treasury expects automatic payments for Social Security beneficiaries no later than the end of April and automatic payments for SSI recipients no later than early May. We hope this is helpful.

  6. Scott m.

    For all the ssi haters out there i had a 4inch open skull fracture. The bleeding on the brain left me blind in one. I almost forgot i have 11 plates and 30 screws in my face. I was so bad i had to my family had to sell the farm. I still live and have pay rent now in the house but you have no idea how depressing it is to look out of the window and know they had to sell it because of menot being able to work out simple problems because of an accident. I dont know if i will get a check or if i have to fill out a form to get is my question

    • Tammy

      Yes! I do Scott and I am so Sorry. I was in a accident and hurt my self and became a Widow at the same time. I lost everything and now receive a month what I almost did weekly. I struggle to pay my rent and I found out today that my mother, who does not help me went behind my back and lied. Now I do not get a check I AM SO DEPRESSED WITH THIS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING. I AM SERIOUSLY AT MY END. I JUST CANT GO ON ALONE AND HOPELESS. I HOPE THINGS GET BETTER FOR YOU AND BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE A FAMILY ! ?

  7. Mike

    Ah! Finally, Mike here 12:31 AM of April 16th. We finally have it people, moment we’ve been waiting for. I get SSI AND SSA on my Direct Express debit card program. I spoke to an agent at Direct Express customer service and he said that all representatives throughout the continental United States of America are going to be working out the details of these major changes of the cards to accept electronic payments of the stimulus along with the The Dept. Of The Treasury and possibly the I.R.S. together processing up to date changes and more new updates say by end of the month of April 24-30, 2020 and hopefully at the similar fashion and timing of what we normaly of our other government benefits would we monthly. Be patient ladies and gentlemen! Praise God!! I pray for our fight to end COVID 19 of planet Earth!!! In Jesus’s name AMEN!!!!!?

    • Karen

      I am ssi i got mine i got lucky

      • Claudio

        hello,. Karen did you get your stimlus ckeck or a deposit to your bank account?

    • Tanner

      No one has 2 weeks to wait that long, you don’t see something wrong with that and ridiculous ??? Most of us benefits are chump change already and that emergency $1,200 will do us good right now. Who the hell is going to smile and lays back waiting 2 weeks from now for that money, no one. We need it now! I don’t understand what is the hold up releasing the funds to Direct Deposit beneficiaries quickly,wake up!!

  8. Codi.

    Hi. I did the TurboTax non filer since that’s what they originally said and I receive supplemental security income but since I did the tax thing will I still get the stimulus check on May 1st? I’m not claimed as a dependent. I’m 28 but have no kids and am single. I entered my new bank account information but get my SSI on direct express card so will it go to that or my chime account? Could really use a helpful answer please. Hope everyone stays safe!

  9. Ada

    Hello
    I just wanted to find out if my son will get stimulus check. He 2 yrs old and receive SSI. He has down syndrome been on SSI since he was born. Is there anything i need to do to fill out for it or no please let me know. Thank u

  10. Kim

    This is redicilous that we have to wait till may people on ssdi ssi and retirement need the money now just like the others who lost there jobs were all poor so what class got paid first? Yeah us poor people are always at the End…

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