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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. Anna

    I’m also on SSI and I’m still waiting for my STIMULAS CHECK. How much longer do I/we have to wait???

    • E

      Until early May?

  2. D P.

    I’m on ssi and social security from my late husband I’m waiting too it’s hard for everything one I hope we get it soon I’m having it hard right now I’ve been married for 2years my husband not working he trying to get ssi and social security but. no not sending a letter just waiting. my husband can’t work so I’m paying all the bills. God bless everything one. peace and hope. it’s been hard on me I have a wonderful husband. and if I don’t get the money I Wii make it. love to every one

  3. Christa L.

    People get $600 unemployment every week and we have to live on 783 what the crap plus we are last to be paid. I’m down to hardly nothing right now.

  4. Charolette

    My mother is my payee, I receive ssa (survivors benefits) will she receive my stimulus payment on the direct express card? Do I qualify for a stimulus payment?

  5. Misty D.

    I am on ssi but have no dependants. Do i have to wait til mid may to get my stimulus money. I need it bad right now.

    • Christa L.

      Same here

  6. janice b.

    What day stimulus check

    • Victoria

      I wish someone would give us a straight answer

  7. janice b.

    Stimulus check Janice Blair what day

  8. Cary

    We filed our bank info and number of dependents via the non filers portal on 4.11 and received acceptance from the IRS the same day. The status has not changed at all. Please help.

  9. Richard F.

    I dont understand, i work my ass off for 30+ years only to get hurt and end up on ssi, i know im not alone on that. I have direct express and havent recieved nothing yet, our government is unfair and a bunch of freaking liars. Whats so hard about putting the money on the card.

  10. Victoria

    It’s 2:52 and still no stimulus check pending on my direct express card just my monthly SSDi.

    • Peter

      Same here, same thing , same infor , no stimulus pending just benefits pending

    • Jeremiah

      Same thing for me too . Excatly 3:35. SSDI

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