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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. Shearon R.

    My old roomate took me as a dependent this year and wasn’t supposed to. Now I have to go back and get this straightened out to even get a stimulus check. Until they pass another bill, I am stuck with nothing. I did this 4 weeks ago, but I may have to file in 2020 to get this because of what my old roomate did. This sucks so bad. If u get SSI, check to make sure that someone didn’t use u as a dependent, u can’t get it if they did.

  2. Daniel

    I am on ssdi and i have direct express when i checked the ..get my payment tool.It said they would be mailing a check on May 1..I dont unerstand this.I always get mine on the card …

    • Victoria

      Do you file taxes or have dependents

  3. Chris S.

    Why can’t you tell the people on ssi exactly the day they’ll reseve there stimulus check

    • Gigi

      The same reason they can’t tell people on regular retirement social security. They don’t know an exact date. It’s up to the IRS to get the payments out. NOT SOCIAL SECURTY!!! CONTACT YOUR STATE SENATOR AND COMPLAIN!!

  4. Christina A.

    When are people on Social Security supposed to receive their stimulus money

    • Gigi

      Contact your state senator

  5. linda d.

    do people with a payee get their stimulas check

    • Gigi

      Your payee will get it

  6. Mya

    I have went on line to try to enter my information ti get the extra $500 for each child but when i get to the end it wont allow me to submitted it

  7. Melissa G.

    I didn’t receive my 1200

  8. Faye B.

    We need an exact date of the stimulus checks suppose to come for the. ones on SSI

  9. Daniel P.

    I do receive SS monthly with direct deposit – during covid 19 are there additional funds I can apply for .. age 666

    • CNN

      Daniel you are too old to receive a stimulus check. I think the cut off is age 365.

      • Tamikia K.

        Cracking up

    • Sam

      D you file taxes

    • Damn

      Lol!! You should’ve been the first one Lucifer.

  10. TBF

    I am in need of my stimulus check. I am a SSI beneficiary with direct deposit. My monthly check was deposited today, but not a stimulus. Please send the stimulus.

    • Elaine s.

      I also got my SSI check today on my direct Express and I fid not get my stimulus payment either

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