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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. Nichole

    My question is, how doe the IRS know we use direct express to get our monthly benefits??

    • BasicInfo

      The direct express card was created by the treasury and the stimulus payments are being made out through the treasury put two into together

  2. Natasha

    I think all of us on SSI and SSDI are getting the run around and their all laughing at us for their enjoyment.. Yes I get SSI on direct express card but my SSI takes care of my bills and the stimulus would only help me cause I only get 50 bucks to keep from my SSI each month … They should have taken care of all of us SSI and SSDI, and vets first instead of dragging our stimulus out cause we need it .. I have no one no kids or family its just me

    • Tonya

      I totally agree with you.

  3. Ricky V.

    Has anyone gotten their checks who use any kind of card, like Direct Express or Netspend?

    • Sammy

      My friend got her stimulus check on her NetSpend. And she files taxes. She got it a week ago

    • Angie

      No it’s gonna happen but might be may 5 th or so every web site I’ve read bout they keep pushing the date up

  4. Ricky A.

    I would like to know if anyone who uses a Netspend card has received their Stimulus check?

  5. JUDD D.

    I was claimed by my daughter and now I don’t receive a check were is that fair I want to know.

  6. Shari L.

    My SSDI payments on my USDXMastercard
    on the 3rd of each month. Like many people, I have no qualifying dependents and am not required to file taxes ( now; as well as 2018 and 2019). While I’ve yet to receive my economic impact funds, I have no doubt I’ll receive those funds along with the usual monthly amount May 3. Chill!

  7. Kelly B.

    I got a deposit

    it is 1200.00

    from something called IRS STIMULI

    this happened less than an hour ago.

    • Nichole

      Was it a bank about or on your direct express card?

      • Kelly B.

        It is in my bank account.

    • Elizabeth

      Do you mind me asking if you get SSI or SSDI and do you have direct deposit with a bank are or do you use Direct Express.
      I myself get SSDI disability and I have a bank account my husband gets SSI and has a Direct Express card neither one of us have received anything at all just curious,, I live in Georgia

      • Kelly B.

        Elizabeth I promise its coming. I’m sure everyone will have it by wednesday, depending on their banks. I have ssdi and have a bank account. I am in Big Bear Lake, CA

  8. William E.

    I’d love to know if anyone who has a Direct Express card has yet to receive a pending deposit or a payment period??????

  9. Dorris J.

    Yes you will get a payment automatically the same way you get your monthly benefit. The IRS site just said today that you should recieve it by the end of April to the first week in May.

  10. Joe

    This article was just released about eight hours ago says that we should start seeing the money in the account by April 29

    https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/2020042411186/next-wave-of-irs-stimulus-payments-set-to-hit-bank-accounts-in-coming-days

    • gh43

      It keeps getting pushed back. Next by May 6th.

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