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
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Candace S.
The same questions are being asked repeatedly if you are on SSI supplemental Social Security income and you are a Direct Express Card recipient; payment should have been there by today 5/13/20. I’m probably the hundred thousandth person that’s asking where is it. I agree with several comments I’ve seen on here; if you’re disabled you’re getting screwed. I just need the money so I can handle my business in life. With what little piddly scraps you give me for my retirement, because of some stupid bureaucracy or policy that says I didn’t have enough units to receive my full benefit because I became disabled at the age of 50. I get screwed out of about $300,000 of my retirement money that I paid into for 20-plus fucking years. People need to start paying attention, why is our money being taken from us? I didn’t ask you to hold my money it was already done for me. I certainly didn’t vote for anybody to take my money and put it elsewhere. I needed that money for when I needed to retire; whether it be at fifty or sixty five.
Just as I needI to know where my stimulus payment is?
Only straight answers need to reply!
John T.
I agree with you i was screwed for that same reason i even showed proof of my work credits they didnt except so all the years i worked payin into the system i get nothing but ssi. So we are at the day 5/13/2020 everybody on ssi an direct express ssdi is getting payed right um wrong nothing, people are getting tired of empty promises me they we all need help running out of money because of something we had no control over but if we take it to the streets an start causing problems u cant arrest us we are pissed at a system that doesnt care i thought this was home of the free land of the brave, not anymore land of the oil home of the greedy so disgusting how veterans an disabled are treated its gotta to stop
Robert T.
How come i have not received my stimulas check today is May 13, 2020 i checked everything nothing can somebody explain why ?
Robert T.
Hello my name is R Tandy and im on Supplementary Security Income and i have been patiently waiting for my stimulus check I’ve sent my bank account number and routing number so far nothing. I’ve read were it says we will be receiving our checks direct deposit today witch is May 13, 2020 I’ve been checking Get My Payment in. I keep getting payment status not available. Can someone please explain to me why ? Im really looking forward to that check cause i am back up on bills and to be expecting a check from you on the day you claim your was sending it is very misleading especially when your looking forward to it is really stressful. Can someone please tell me something.
Kenyatta P.
This is really crazy this government goes to be the greatest government in the world and they’re sending people that’s not even alive stimulus checks we sitting here with Direct Express cards payees and we can’t even get a stimulus check because of red tape this is really cold we already have disabilities and you put more stress and burning on us and then he won’t give us no answers there’s people that’s not getting a money I don’t know what you government or doing it seem like you people don’t want us to have this money that you so-called promised the treasury man. On TV and said all this great stuff and had everybody hopes up high and now the people that’s with disabilities are getting left behind when there’s people that’s not even alive getting stimulus check sent to
Peter L.
They say that The IRS has not determined when these EIPs will be processed for SSI recipients with representative payee.
Why make them wait for this EIP just because they have a representative payee? Please tell the IRS please don’t make them suffer.
Please help these seniors!!. Thank you
Kenyatta P.
This is sad I’m really upset I’m a disabled person already have issues and I’m sitting here worrying about money that’s promised to us I’m looking at the news and online these people are sending stimulus checks to dead people here we are on Social Security Disability have payees with direct deposit in the Direct Express card and you guys keep telling us I bought some red tape this government is really really messed up this is supposed to be America and it’s stressing all of us people out on disability and you people don’t care when you sending people that’s not even a live check what’s going on with this stuff and you people won’t give us no answers we are disabled people veterans people with disabilities bipolar blind handicap and you guys promise is this money everybody else is getting money but the disability people that got payees and even people that don’t have payees and they going to send money to people that’s not even alive this is not right
John T.
How hard is it to route stim checks to direct express cards an to direct deposit i mean your the irs but im thinkin thats where the f uped started letting the irs handle it instead of the US treasurey directly
antoinette c.
when will stimulus for ssa with payee be deposited
V.V.
Hi Antoinette, 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.
Julio C.
I’m disabled person I have been on ssi
Since 2018 and still haven’t seen a deposits check for the stimulus check. I have direct deposits on my ssi and I just checked and there’s on deposits.
Joan V.
I’m on SSI and disability and I have not received my stimulas check yet and I don’t know how it will come, direct deposit or though the mail. I would really like to know what to and when to expect it. How do I find out? Everyone else I know has already received theirs so when will I get mine?