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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. dorothy s.

    I didn’t get my check on SSI and have direct deposit on bank my check go into each. so went do I received my check.

    • Gigi

      Contact your state senator

  2. James R.

    I’m very unhappy with the way the government has handled this. I know people that I have already received their paper checks in the mail. Others have received there’s by direct deposit. I have taken the extra stuff some filling out forum that will give them my current email address my home address my filing status and I still can’t get a straight answer when I’m supposed to get my check. I would like to know I’d when I will see my check in my banking account?

  3. gina a.

    i havent received my ssi stimulus payment yet what should i do

  4. Kathryn C.

    I was looking forward to getting the $1,200 stimulus money, but I won’t be getting it. ?

    “Other dependents won’t receive stimulus payments, either. For example, an elderly parent living with an adult child is out of luck and won’t get a check.”
    Why not? We still have bills to pay, doctor visits, prescriptions, etc. I don’t feel this is right. I paid taxes for 50+ years, but I’m being discriminated against? This makes no sense to me.

    • TBF

      Tell the gov your V iew O f T his Event

  5. Crystal

    I get SSDI and i have DirectExpress card I haven’t received anything yet is this where my payment will go and how do I know when. I also have no dependents to count.

  6. Sammy H.

    I am 63 and disabled. I receive social security supplemental income. I receive my income direct deposited through walmart’s green dot bank onto my walmart visa bebit card. So I wanted to know how long will it be before I receive my impact $1200 I have not yet received. Or do I need to do anything else.

    • Gigi

      Contact your state senator

  7. Ghost

    I haven’t got mines either but my copayee did ??????

    • Clesson L.

      I get ssi get in on direct express why haven’t I got my money yet I have no. Kids to clam

  8. Saafira R.

    I didnt either

  9. Wilfred J.

    I get direct deposit ssdi payments straight to my bank account. Everything online has been very slow to give any dates as to when I would get my money. There is no online tool that I can use to find out. Now the latest is that I will get it by April 29th, 2020. Here it is now 5/3/2020 and I have received nothing. I still haven’t filled out my Census forms and I feel that when I get my money, they will get my census information.

    • TBF

      You are right. We don’t count, or gov would send us help too without delay.

      • TBF

        Let them count how SSI recips V?O?T?E!

        • Gigi

          Contact you state senator and ask them where your payment is.

        • Gigi

          Contact your state senator

    • Wilfred J.

      I contacted my senator today so now it is a wait for a response. I gave my Social security beneficiary status. I voiced my concern of lack of information and vague approximations of payment dates online and lack of online tools that could tell me when I would be paid. I also said I felt ignored just because I am not required to file taxes (income too low) as a disabled person. My senator of Iowa is Joni Ernst.

  10. paula c.

    I have a direct express card and I didn’t receive my stimulus check yet I’am on SSI I have no dependent no children . Do I need to go through IRS

    • gina a.

      i havent received my ssi stimulus payment yet what should i do

      • Cynthia L.

        When can I expect my 1200 check

    • Clesson L.

      I get ssi get in on direct express why haven’t I got my money yet I have no. Kids to clam

      • Gigi

        Contact your state senators

    • Gigi

      Contact your state senator

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