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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Esther M.
If from the united states why waot so lpng to get economic payment…
Esther M.
How would an ssi person have a banking number if its alredy known…
Winfred W.
I’d there a$660 stimulus besides the $120On
Jeanna C.
I filled out the non filers forms way before the deadline. I still didn’t receive the 500 for my 12yr old. I met all the requirements. What does people like myself do? I’m a terminally ill single mother and could really use this now instead of much later.
Sarah
I didn’t receive it either. There are so many people on this blog asking the same thing. I hope they find a way to give it to us this year but the reality of it is we are going to have to pay to file taxes next year when we don’t even file taxes just to get the $500 that was promised to us for help now. Irs just left a 1800 # you can call to talk to live irs people now. I’m going to call tomorrow and see what they say. I don’t want to have to wait til next year it’s ridiculous because we need it now.
Candi
You can file your taxes for free next year through several tax sites, it isn’t so complicated that you should have to pay someone. I am really getting frustrated reading through all these comments. I too would love to have some extra money. The truth is though that all of us receiving disability or whatever form of help from the SSA should not be struggling right now. I know I am not. Why??? Because I have still been receiving the same in SSDI that I have been before and during these months of covid. I’m not going to say I know each person’s individual struggles, but come on people. You are complaining about not receiving free money that you honestly shouldn’t even really need right now! How is it that all the sudden when talk of a stimulus payment for covid starts to spread, all the sudden people whose benefits have not changed don’t seem to have money for rent and other bills?? Did you spend your money for rent on other things because you were planning on receiving a stimulus check in time too catch up on rent later? I just don’t get it. I have had no problem having my bills be paid on time. Maybe everyone receiving any form of disability should have a payee. Then all these comments about how broke you are right now would go away. If you do have a payee and your rent didn’t get paid then obviously your payee is allowing you to misuse your funds! That’s all…
Steve99@yahoo.com
Hey fuck u all my ssi goes to rent dont tell me i dont need it as i starve obviously ur payee helps u alot mine dont u could be just a troll to but suck my dick on the plenty good enuff shit cause. It aint now may i wish u get covid and hope in soon biblical civil or world w3 which is imminent by wayu get shot on face. Good day
Steve99@yahoo.com
People like u id love to shoot in face. Be glad ur payee prob son or daughtee helps u. Are is gone to rent litle if any left and missy we have a payee. Now please get covid good day
Labotamy c.
Id luv to shoot u in face
Steve99@yahoo.com
Fuck u trool
Disfugured. H.
Fuck u die get rona shot in face
Wyu
Fuck you
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Hey candi suck my dick troll ssi living is shitty living my payee is broke when ww3 or riotsstart they will tell me so i can shoot u in face good day
Zonia
The social security stopped my monthly monetary help because I was unable to become a citizen ( I supposed to swear in March and was unable to do it because the COVID regulations )…. what to do????
V.V.
Hi Zonia, thanks for using our blog. For your security, we do not have access to private information in this venue. We ask that members in our Blog community work with our offices with specific questions. You can call us at 1-800-772-1213 for assistance or you can contact your local Social Security office. Please look for the general inquiry telephone number at the Social Security Office Locator. The number may appear under Show Additional Office Information. Please be aware that our call wait times are longer than normal. We hope this information helps.
Steve99@yahoo.com
Candi fuck you now starve
Wanda P.
I’m having a hard time time with the app for the IRS stimulus check. And I have done everything that the app tells me to do. I can’t get my email verified. This is hard for me because I really don’t understand how to do it. And I live on SSI and SSD. But I don’t have a computer. Can you please help.
Gail
Unfortunately the first two who haven’t received anything a lot of people are wondering the same thing. Starla you should of gotten a letter according to the website to report your money wasn’t deposited.
Starla E.
I was told my stimulus check was deposited on April 15.
Also it was supposed to come on the same card my SSI benefits come.
I can’t locate my stimulus check.
David L.
Where’s our money I’m on Social Security disability and I haven’t seen no damn check anywhere man I feel like being lied to by my government I want to know where my money is that’s what I want to know if I have bills to pay I want to know where my money is now!!
Terri D.
I receive SSDI, don’t file taxes, but get my SSDI in direct deposit on the 3rd of the month. I haven’t gotten my stimulus and really need it. No help anywhere as far as true information about when it will come. First it was April, then the beginning of May then the middle of May. Why can’t we get a live person with real answers. This is frustrating.