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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Yes yes o we just all have payees that just do it all and pay for our rent its never ever good. Now plrase die or pay urself be glad u gotta a kid i assime is ur payee
Steve99@yahoo.com
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Steve99@yahoo.com
Irs tool saying somethin they dont recogonize and this was a very miserable holiday one that stimousshuld been in my hand. Long. Ago. And 2 irs people shuldnt have got one im hoping evbody is broke no food and miserable. And i truly mean it. Good day
SHELLEY F.
I’m on SSI and serviors benefits I make 2,000 a year…. And I have direct express and still have not gotten the stimulus payment and I really don’t know what to do or who to call..
Denise M.
My son and I are still waiting for our stimulus checks.
Anna P.
I have been waiting for my $1200.00 for a very long time, everyone else I know has gotten theirs. When I go on to see if there is any information, it just says, there is not enough data, what does that mean? Please help me to get some answers. Thank you.
None o.
Wheres my CHECK CALIFORNIA! DONT YOU THAT SSDI AND SSI ARE LOW INCOME AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT PAID HIGH TAXES AND SICK! BUT CALIFORNIA WANTS TO PAY “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE TAXMONEY? CORRUPT WE NEVER VOTED FOR THAT. WHAT ABOUT US?
Tiffany
Check detect express card money should there for the 28th I have a pending for the 28th for my 1200
Tina R.
A 17 yr. Old on SSI. Does she get the stimulus check. Disability at birth .