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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. Heidi L.

    Hi I dudntvrevieve mine yet

  2. Brenda L.

    What do we do if we haven’t received any yet and the get my payment says they don’t have enough information about me..
    I get my SSI directly deposited every month why do they not have enough information about me when I get my monthly payment with no problem

  3. Renee P.

    I have yet to receive my stimulas check

  4. Judith s.

    I have not recieve my check

  5. Sharon w.

    I have not recieved any money yet

  6. M

    It’s crazy that these stimulus payments were originally said that they’d go out to the lowest of income people FIRST, and yet people on Social Security are considered very low income, and yet we STILL haven’t received our stimulus. Why are people on social security always taken care of last. It really makes it seem like we are not even cared about. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful that we are even considered at all in this stimulus package and weren’t left out of it. But I don’t understand why the lowest income portion of the American Society, aren’t taken care of first when it was literally said numerous times that the lowest income would receive their payments first. Makes no sense that we are still waiting.

    • ME

      Not one person on SS in my church has received their stimulus. Gov. DeSantis and FL love Trump. What’s going on? Where is our love?

    • Faith

      Not one person on SS from my church has received stimulus. My state has the highest population of seniors in US. What is going on? Our church has a food pantry visited weekly by many disabled, retired, and other SS people. None of them have received relief payment.

  7. Sharon w.

    I have not recieved my money yet

  8. Glinda C.

    Will people on ssi get there stimulus check with there ssi check

  9. Sharon w.

    I have not recieved no impact payment i have no depend child and on ssi. And have a bank account

  10. Morris W.

    I have not received my check yet

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