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Update on Economic Impact Payments for Social Security and SSI Beneficiaries

May 22, 2020 • By

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Last Updated: February 21, 2023

Beginning today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will issue Economic Impact Payments (EIP) to approximately 1.4 million SSI recipients with representative payees and 10.4 million Social Security beneficiaries with representative payees.

The IRS will issue the EIPs via direct deposit and Direct Express starting today, May 22, to the same direct deposit account or Direct Express card as the recipient’s monthly Social Security or SSI payment. Paper check EIPs will be mailed starting May 27.

Visit our website to learn about EIPs and representative payees. You can find the eligibility requirements and other information about the EIPs at the IRS’ Economic Impact Payment Information Center.

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Comments

  1. Christopher J.

    I have SSI direct deposit. I filled out banking direct deposit info to IRS. I have no kids. I updated address from one apartment to another in same complex. Mail goes yo USPS box and has since disabled on SSI.

    What is the problem, the hold up with the
    Stimulus payment…really. Stop the BS and answer the phone.has it even been mailed out? It take 30 minutes to cross reference info with and from SSA IRS. I’m drowning here.

  2. betty w.

    THANK YOU.

  3. OLUFEMIWA M.

    All people I knew from eastcoast got their both direct deposit and mailed checks. All that federal government afford Arizonian citizen is stepchild treatment. pacifying, kick in the growing. I wish someone take time to provide information of distribution style that will be use to distribute the check hence we are all impacted by the crisis. For example, east cost will get check/deposit between so & so; central between so & so; mountain … and pacific…
    as it turns out no one cares, leave everyone wonder if we are living in the same country. I hope this idea can be taken into account in the future though no one wish this type of crisis surface again in their lifetime. I don’t.

  4. lawrence w.

    my name is lawrence w curry sr i was told i would get my stimulus payment on my dorect express card may 13th and nothing ive tryed to contact irs everyone and nothing i was on the phone 5 hrs to irs and got hung up on this is not a way to trat someone

  5. Tim C.

    Yeah we’ll still not quick 3nough for those who are hurting the most from
    The impact of Covid-19 were hurting here Please Speed it up!

  6. Alipio A.

    Where is my money.. There is nothing complicated about my situation so I don’t understand the delay. I have tried the website to no avail. What do I do now? Just sit and wait and maybe I will get it?

  7. selena j.

    why can people let someone carry them on there taxes can not get no help

  8. Samuel T.

    When is the ssdi payment be sent out

    • Ann C.

      Hi, Samuel. If you are referring to the Economic Income Payments, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is part of the U.S. Treasury, will be making these. Please visit the Internal Revenue Service’s website here for all your Economic Income Payment-related questions. If you are unable to find the answer, call the IRS hotline at 1-800-919-9835. We hope this helps.

  9. Alipio A.

    I have been receiving direct deposit of my SSA payments but have yet to receive this stimulus check. My sister received hers, but I have been in contact with friends who are in the same position as I and they haven’t received anything either. There is nothing complicated about my situation so I don’t understand the delay. I have tried the website to no avail. What do I do now? Just sit and wait and maybe I will get it?

    • BENEDICTA A.

      Same here. This is really messed up. Both IRS and SSA said no action on my part, money would be deposited the same way I get my monthly SSA pension, via direct deposit. Many SSA pensioners are still waiting for their money.

    • Ann C.

      Hi, Alipio. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is part of the U.S. Treasury, will be making Economic Income Payments. Please visit the Internal Revenue Service’s website here for all your Economic Income Payment-related questions. If you are unable to find the answer, call the IRS hotline at 1-800-919-9835. We hope this helps.

  10. Suzanne W.

    When will SSD recipient’s receive EIP?

    • tonya r.

      My boyfriend gets SSDI disability and he gets his payments on his direct express card on the 3rd of every month and he still has not received his $1200 stimulus payment and he’s concerned about it and wanting to know what’s going on ? He’s wanting to know what the IRS is going to do about it and what are they doing with the money ?

    • Ann C.

      Hi, Suzanne. Please visit the Internal Revenue Service’s website here for all your Economic Income Payment-related questions. If you are unable to find the answer, call the IRS hotline at 1-800-919-9835. Thanks!

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