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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. Britany E.

    I have direct express debit card and did not recieve my stumus payment on my card on the 13 like i was supposed to why?

  2. Theresa C.

    I collect my late husbands security check will I still recurve the stimulus And everyone I worked with got theirs and I haven’t ??????

  3. Julita V.

    I am an SSI recipient but i haven’t received yet my stimulus payment to this date?

  4. Silvia

    How and when will the IRS send my economic impact payment (EIP) if I have a representative payee?

    • Nicki

      May 27

  5. Kevin

    I think it is wrong that they say we will get this money and still waiting for it and still nothing and I was suppos to get mine one the first of may and then they said the 13 of may and that was a lie

  6. Toya D.

    Do ones whom don’t have a dependent receive the 1,200? Or ones whom were filed as dependent on someone else taxes over the age of 18 whom don’t work? If so when or what do you have to do?

  7. Charles W.

    Thanks for not answering eny of my post still left in be the dark I guess I hope you all who have promised us a stimulus payment on the April 29th30th the 1st of May & may5th6th then the13th a great year hope you fell good that you made are days upsetting confused so thank you for your time and effort at what you do every day hearing are sob story thank you & by

    • Tiffany P.

      We should be getting it soon my sister got hers yesterday on her derect express card also my grandma did too

  8. Charles W.

    We for one don’t pay taxes and got a ssa1099 form because we are on disability&ssi why you keep sending us to a site for the irs who seems to not care about us and you should and keep saying it’s/treasury we just want what was to come to us stop promising something and turn around and treat us like we don’t matter I know you understand where I am coming from or we should we suffer the wait thanks for treating some one with mental health issues already like this it’s a shame

  9. Gary M.

    It was said that we as the ssa recipient didn’t have to do anything to get the money from the government, but I have not been able to see it yet

  10. Charles W.

    This page needs updated it’s may 15th 2020 and still have not got a stimulus payment I am on disability and should have gotten It may 1st and don’t know why not why do you say something and not do it I am not alone you said the treasury would send it may 13th and still wait will eny one even reply to me on here

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