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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Coleen h.
My husband is on SSDI and owes back child support and i am on SSi can they take my stimulus check.
Jack
If we on social security but we owe back child support will we get partial of tge check or none
Coleen h.
my husband is on ssdi and i am on ssi he owes back child support will they take my stimulus check too
Vonda V.
Hi Colleen, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!
dawn h.
I’ve read thru a lot of comments and one thing I’d like to add is everyone needs to remember we’re all have disabilities, not everyone has the same disability, why arent they reading? Disabled. nerve condition, learning disabilities etc. Also, a lot of us are confused, and you can blame that on the news media. There’s so much confusuion , so many different reports, some I think make it up as they go. Let’s try to remember we’re not all the same, be kind. If we’re in this together, have some compassion.
Felicia C.
Still nothing. I have ss and bank direct deposit.
Assholes.
Dawn
Tamara, I am so sorry to hear about your misfortune! Were you aware that your mother had claimed you on her taxes? If not, and they did it without your permission then they committed tax fraud and there’s a way to deal with that.
Jan
What is someone claimed you on their taxes and you get SSI, will we still get the stimulas ?
Kim. W.
Hey I’m a working parent I get SSDI for my son I pay taxes every year where would money go .
I’m so confused cause I pay taxes and get SSDI for my son
Jackie
I think it’s BS they have said nothing about SSDI. When do we get our stimulus payment???
@Kim Williams if you claimed taxes and they have your bank account. Your SSDI will go into your bank account. If you usually get your SSDI check by mail then the IRS will be mailing your check to you.
Jan
What is someone claimed you on their taxes and you get SSI, will we still get the stimulas ?
Vonda V.
Hi Kim, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!
Jack
If we on social security but we owe back child support will we get partial of tge check or none
Smh
The good ol IRS bs website that says NOTHING on the timeline for SSDI deposits
Teresa E.
I know someone they got 700 an child support took the rest
Sayira B.
My question is I receive both SSI/SSDI which, started Aug 2017 and lived with my son who’s a nurse in the Army. He started claiming me as an “other dependent” in the 2018 tax year. He provides more than half of the living expenses but I pay my own bills with my own benefit entitlements. Furthermore, regardless I also file my own taxes every year even though I am not required to and don’t receive a return. I do it for the IRS knowledge and out of habit of filling taxes every year. Now my son received his stimulus funds on April 14, my question am eligible for a stimulus package since I receive both SSI/SSDI or not because of him claiming me as an “other dependent”?
Thank-you to the individual who can provide me with a response.
It
Ok since he claims you as a dependent you’re screwed. You don’t qualify.
Jackie
No you won’t get the stimulus benefit. Your claimed as a dependent on your son’s taxes
Vonda V.
Hi Sayira, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!
Anastacia L.
If I filed taxes but my grandaughter 17 gets SSI will she get the stimulus since I didnt get the 500 for a 17 year old?
Vonda V.
Hi Anastacia, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!
Head S.
Yall are some lame ass mfs, just a bunch of random ass people asking the same damn questions over n over just in different contexts! Be blessed that your getting a check period, and simply be patient and chill tf out, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, I assure u itll all work tf out, so stop whining!
Jackie
There is no reason for negativity. NONE AT ALL. NO REASON TO DROP THE COMMENTS YOU HAVE ON SSA.GOV website. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND!!!! People are trying to survive through this virus. Yes it’s a gift however, some people on SSI ( not everyone) may live in a household that another person who usually work’s lost their job due to coronavirus. People on SSI are depending on this money to pay a mortgage or rent, food and so on. How does this sound? Instead of being negative. ( Of course everyone is thankful. ) Why don’t you help another person to understand the Stimulus Payment. Be supportive of others. Don’t hide behind the computer with a fake name. There’s enough going on right now with COVID-19.
Stella
Thank you Jackie your are so right all that time it took that person to write that he are she could have wrote something positive. And like you said hiding behind that fake name.
Nolee
My husband is on SSI (received via Direct Express card) as he is disabled and does not file returns. I have been his f/t caregiver for several years. To my understanding, he will get a stimulus payment but I will not. However, I filed a joint return anyway and claimed $20 I found on the ground before the decision to require returns was reversed. How, if at all, will this affect any stimulus payments?