Supplemental Security Income Recipients Will Receive Automatic COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments
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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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Scotty
I havent received my stimulous check and im on ssi and dont file taxes.i thought it was automatically being put on my card?its may 7th im giving up .
Sharon B.
I’ve received nothing. I’m on SSI as is my Son. He efiled and received a stimulus check a week ago. I tried to e file but could not submit the last step as I only have a cellphonegor internet. I’m getting ready to be evicted from my home. I need help now not a bunch of empty dates to wait for. Early Mayis over in 2 days.
Ursula P.
I have not received any stimulus money 53 on total disability. SSI disability what should i do .
Chris
SSI recipients are to expect their stimulus money in early May they say… But it will be mid May next week, and I sure haven’t received anything yet! I am in “End Stage” COPD, with very little time left to my life!! I hate being lied to as it is, but it’s cruel to promise a poor dying man, and then renege!!! Purely insult, and further injury!!!! WHY?
Marie
I have not received a payment yet. I receive SSI. Who can I contact?
Rosalia B.
Please deposit my stimulus check on the 13th of May.
I am so frustrated with the IRS & SS debacle. You send millions of dollars to dead people, Harvard, Large Companies, and we small people have to wait forever to receive our check. Not fair nor impressive of two of the largest federal institutions to be so disjointed.
Carol C.
I sure hope so…
M
SSI recipients should have direct deposit stimulus payment in their account on file by May 13th. If you are expecting a paper check, they will be mailed out starting May 15th.
Angela
What about ssdi. Because i still have not received mine
Jacqueline M.
I have not received my stimulus check. I recieve SSI.
M
SSI recipients should have direct deposit stimulus payment by May 13th. If you are expecting a paper check, they will be mailed out starting May 15th.
Sandra M.
I have not received mine .And I can not find status I din all the step , I filled out not filter info ,and unable to no anything about when I receive mine.when many others have ,been with my bank for 20 years . My information has not changed .
Evelyn S.
I get ssI and ss and haven’t got mine ..
I don’t have to taxes . I pay my own bills. And I have direct deposit…
I dont believe it fair that I still haven’t got a check.. and they said all on SSI and ssd we all would get a check to help..
Sincerely Evelyn
M
SSI recipients should have direct deposit stimulus payment by May 13th. If you are expecting a paper check, they will be mailed out starting May 15th.
Derek R.
Yeah ,who told you this? I am tired of all these comments that have no reliable source, only IRS knows and they put this off so long, it is ridiculous, what is the problem, makes no sense!