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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Traci
Where is the money as promised? How wrong it is to make people believe and give dates and no one gets anything.
Payee Q.
Has anyone found out when SSDI recipients with payee will get their 1200? My mom is my disabled brothers payee, she got hers but he did not get his. I hope they realise that some people have payee accounts/
Tessie p.
My mom too didn’t get and my uncle did hes her payee I wonder why
Lisa
My daughter my payee on my SSDI and It’s not went into checking account yet idc what’s going on wish I did
Victoria
I hope the rest of us get our stimulus money on our direct express cards this week.
Joanna
If we get both ssi and ssdi will be have to wait til ssi stimulus?
Jonah k.
I am a retired miitary veteran and disable and I am disable and havent seen the stimulus check for $1200 !!!!
Levi
Why is it that I still do not have my stimulus check on April 29? My monthly benefit shows it is pending for the first but nothing for the stimulus check
Victoria
Same here… but it’s pending on some direct express cards.
Levi
Do you know this for a fact because you have met in person with someone and they have shown you or because someone has told you on here?
Victoria
No.. only people on here saying it’s pending or have already received it on the DirectExpress card.
Colleen
My ex-husband is on SSDI and he got his stimulus check in his bank this morning, while I have not gotten mine if I am even getting one and I am on SSI And I use the Direct Express card.
Steve W.
I also was supposed to be getting my stimulus on my driect express card. I’m
waiting just like most people it looks like.
Can someone please give me some type of truthful timeline other than the middle of May.. I’ve been told we would be one of the first to receive our payment..
Here it is the end of April and I have my regular benefits pending thank GOD ??
Virginia W.
How does a 17 year old apply for this if he don’t work and is on his own
Saars h.
Get a fucking job u fucking clown absolutey no reason at ur age u cant hospice fast food i can tell u if apply ud be NO and possibly penalized for later i was ur age i had fulltime and job and house i realize
David L.
Same here I have received nothing and I know several people who have
Theresa B.
It’s Now April 29th 2020 at 1:00 in morning and Nothing is showing yet in my Account for my Stimalus Check . They Said Monday that we would get ours for everyone on Disability, Retirement.Excetra today . Also someone on here said at 1:00AM they will be in on the April 29rh So Where The Hell Is Mine and I Get Direct Deposit of my Checks Every month to!!!!!!!!!
John T.
Theres gonna be some pissed off people in the morning ssa an irs has fumbled this one i wasnt counting on the money being there but alot of people were , we being lead to believe that the stimulus is gonna solve our problems this chicken feed aint going to help but alittle people are so far behind on there bills because of this mishandling of funds an there running out of food an the basics of life the worst it yet to come an people need help Mr. President do u think people are going to believe you are the lies we are being told God bless all my fellow ssi ssdi people this should show u where we fall in the food chain
anne m.
john they get money every month. they don’t work so not laid off. but now they heed it so bad and I they don’t get it its the presidents fault?? you better thank god we have a president who cares and knowr what to do. if he wasn’t president we woukdnt be getting poop! calm down peeps.
David L.
Same here I have received nothing and I know several people who have
Steve w.
5:30amcst
I’m wondering if we are going to receive any thing at all..
Everything I read, watched ect lead up to the 29th of April and I’m wondering if we are going to have a new B.S date for SSDI covid-19 economic impact payment. Hopefully someone who has received there’s give us
a update on there’s if someone else received there’s please comment below and no B.S. please people it’s very important to my family..I do have my regular benefits pending thank GOD ?
Mj
Ridiculous, government unable or unwilling to get our stimulus payment out. Guess we the disabled are on the bottom of their priority list. Can’t wait for November to come around!!