Supplemental Security Income Recipients Will Receive Automatic COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments
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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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Darial b.
Those of us on ssi should get it cause it take more to survive now more than ever .you need more of every thing.I thank all those who work for all fed agencies for their hard work.
DAVID S.
We got screwed. Think about it. The irs has been putting us on the back burner. They know we don’t have no money. They are hoping we will die from the virus. So then they won’t have to pay. Not to mention they been messing up. Sending 8.2 million dollars to a man in organ. Sending dead people checks that died in the 90s. Double paying millions. So there is no longer enough money. For the piesents like us. I am tired of this. I am going to call every news station in America. And give them a list of ssi victims that if the its would have paid on time they would still be alive. Because of your delays you have caused tens of thousands more on ssi yo die. But that what they want. That way ssi saves money and the treasury saves.
Sheila
Will SSI recipients that have payees , receive a stimulus package? If so, when will that be?
V.V.
Hi Sheila, thank you for your question. The Internal Revenue Service, which is part of the Department of Treasury, will be making Economic Income Payments to eligible people. To help you quickly and easily determine whether you need to take any action to receive your Economic Impact Payment, check out the step-by-step instructions on the Social Security and Coronavirus web page: https://www.ssa.gov/coronavirus/#anchorA. On that page, you will also find details about how the IRS will send economic impact payments to individuals that have a representative payee.
JUDY
MY MOM RECEIVES SSI VIA DIRECT DEPOSIT AND SHE STILL HAS NOT GOTTEN HER STIMULAS AND SHE IS ON A FIXED INCOME. WHEN WILL SHE GET IT? WHAT DOES SHE HAVE TO DO? CAN ANYBODY TELL ME
Christel
I check my account nothing this sad why lie oh yea that’s what the Do
Stafford c.
Where is my stemilus check.
DAVID S.
June 29th irs confirms
Brandi R.
I have NOT received my stimulus payment yet and I’m getting very concerned as to why. I’m on SSI AND SSA. Is there ANYONE at all that I can actually speak to about this find out what to do??
DAVID S.
IRS confirms payments on june 29th for all remaining ssi and ssa beneficiary. Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused on you. This week money already got sent out to people that make under $90000.00
David
I still haven’t received my COVID-19 Economic Impact Payment. I just had my Social Security Disability payment deposited this morning and it wasn’t with that money either.
Mary H.
Why do we even keep hearing about getting this if we don’t even get it got two text saying we would on 5 of may and nothing
Jinifer
I have gotten my stimulus check today! When will my husband get his stimulus check? How will he get it?