Your May payment should have already been sent whether you received Social Security since before May 1997 or if you get both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income. We will dissect the calendar for everyone else so you know precisely when you should expect your May payment.
For those who have applied for disability benefits, survivors, or retirement, Social Security benefit payments are sent monthly; but, the payments are sent in waves throughout the month. Whether you get extra government benefits or the day of the month you were born, your Social Security payment is based on your length of benefit receipt. We’ll break it out if you’re unsure when you ought to be getting paid.
Read on to learn how your payment date is calculated, when you ought to get your check and the complete May payment schedule. For more, don’t miss the Social Security and SSDI cheat sheet and why Social Security Disability Insurance users could have to submit taxes this year.
This is when your Social Security check will arrive.
Find out the day of the month your check will arrive on. May’s Social Security and SSDI payment schedule here
Finding your Social Security payout date:
Usually paid beginning on the second Wednesday of the month, Social Security payments The next two Wednesdays of the month will see the payment of the remaining two payments. Your birthdate determines which week your paycheck arrives. We will discuss one major exception here below.
Other federal benefits won’t arrive that day.
If you get Social Security benefits since before May 1997 or Social Security plus Supplemental Security Income, your payment schedule is not based on your birthdate. Rather, except from a few exclusions, payments are made every month on the same date. While SSI payments are issued on the first of each month, Social Security payments will be given out on the third of the month.
Should the first or the third of the month coincide with a weekend or holiday, these dates will occasionally vary. For instance, March 3, last year happened on a Sunday, hence Social Security recipients got their March payouts two days early, on March 1. Social Security and Social Security Disability Insurance pay the only benefits on the same timetable.
Soon gone are paper Social Security checks.
On Sept. 30, a White House executive order ending the usage of paper Social Security checks would Direct deposits, debit and credit cards, digital wallets and other real-time payment methods will all be sent digitally following that date, therefore lowering the total cost of mailing actual checks to beneficiaries.
Given that just 485,766 Social Security checks are delivered each month—which is meager compared to the 68,104,184 direct deposit payments issued each month—the ruling is not shocking. Moving mailed welfare payments to digital forms will improve security even if this will surely be an adjustment period for those who have been getting physical cheques. Some exclusions will be made for specific people, so keep that in mind.
A Social Security cheque that vanished? Try these techniques.
The Social Security Administration advises waiting three more postal days before getting in touch if your check arrives not at all or late. The national toll-free number is thus 1-800-772-1213. “Wait times to speak to a representative are typically shorter in the morning, later in the week and later in the month,” the SSA observes. Use their office locator to locate a local office if you are having difficulties obtaining a hold on the SSA via the national number.