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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. Diane J.

    I didn’t get my stimulus check either wondering if I will get it in mail or it will go to my payee Services don’t know can’t find answers can anyone help

  2. Nina M.

    I did not get stimulus check governor . I was call bank say not yet . Thanks I’m deaf .

    • Gigi

      Go to your stste senators website and send them an email.

  3. Angel W.

    I have not received my stimulus package but my SSI is there how long its gonna take everybody I ask who get Disability have not received they stimulus package either

  4. Ariel S.

    I don’t believe I’m getting a stimulus check deposited to my ssi card

  5. christine l.

    I get SSI no money on my card

    • Angel W.

      I haven’t got my stimulus package either

  6. Connie

    My daughter is 18 as of last month and she is on SSI will she get a check?

    • V.V.

      Hi Connie, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!

  7. Daniel R.

    I get ssd and nothing yet as far as stimulus money,I don’t really believe any money coming to disability people

  8. Gary M.

    I get my SSI directly deposted never got my stimulas check

  9. Gary M.

    I didn’t get mine yet and this is may second

  10. Kimberly A.

    My son is 14 and she’s that’s inside and my daughters receives death benefits I did not get a stimulus check for now there any of my kids they’re well registered in the system and I don’t file taxes and it’s talking about fle next year. so I feel like I’m being punished because I went on the non fouler website as soon as it came out instead of waiting till the last minute that I’m not going to get a stimulus check for my kids and that is our household income

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