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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. Victoria

    Has anyone on here got a stimulus package on the direct express card yet?

    • Traci

      No check today again. Where is the money for people on ssi ?

      • Daniel

        No

  2. Vicky E.

    I get ssi and it said I would get a paper check may 1st but still nothin …….I hope it doesn’t get sent to a wrong address.

  3. Madeline S.

    I get social security and 74 years old. Not over income . Only make 24000 yearly. Where is my stimulus check

    • Gigi

      Contact your state senators office.

  4. Colleen g.

    I AM ON SSI I GET MINE DIRECT DEPOSITED WHEN DO WE GET OUR STIMULUS CHECKS

  5. Juanita R.

    I already received my stimulus check, thank you very much. .SSI/disability. . What is the other part that I read. I am very sick. And I am grateful. To My GOD ALMIGHTY. Who lovea us all

  6. Sarah T.

    Me and my daughter is still waiting on are check and we got card

  7. David

    Direct express could at least answer calls and tell us that we just need to wait or we need to take some other actions. I think everyone should teach direct express a lesson after this is over by having there monthly payment direct deposited into another account. You can have it sent to chime bank and get your monthly payment 2 days early. I know I will be switching. Im feed up with direct express I hope they lose enough costumers they have to file bankruptcy.

  8. Elaine s.

    I got my monthly check for SSI on direct Express but I did not get my stimulus payment I need my money why it did not go on when they said SSI would get automatically

    • Brent g.

      I got my monthy ssi direct deposit on may 1st no extra stimulus money was deposited.

  9. Jessie

    Will people who receive SSI on a direct express card getting their stimulus payment on the direct express card too? and when will we receive it?

  10. Tammy L.

    I want no if SSI no child still get stimulants check fome cov19 .thankfully

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