RRecipients of the Supplemental Security Income Program will receive their checks, worth up to $914 for individual filers, in just 11 days.
The payment, which will be sent on June 1, is the first of two June checks. The second falls on June 30 because July 1 will be a weekend. There is some variation in the money received because individual filers, joint filers and essential persons receive different amounts.
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Single filers receive $914 each month, eligible couples receive $1,371 and essential people, who live with dependents receiving SSI payments and provide necessary care for them, receive a monthly payment of $458, according to the Social Security Administration.
SSI payments are made in addition to regular Social Security benefits. The program provides monthly payments to adults and children who are blind or otherwise disabled and have limited incomes. To qualify for SSI, a person must be over the age of 65, be totally or partially blind, or have one or more “physical or mental conditions that severely limit daily activities for a period of 12 months or more or whose they can be expected to cause death.”
Although payments are often made on the first of each month, there are exceptions when the first falls on a weekend or holiday. In these cases, the SSA sends out its monthly SSI checks on the last business day before the start of the month.
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The adjusted schedule means that recipients receive 12 checks a year, although some months receive two checks and others none. There are four months in which two payments will be made in the same month this year: March, June, September and December. Indeed, the first of the month falls on a weekend or a public holiday in April, July and October. January 1 is always a public holiday.
SSI payments were first issued by the SSA in January 1974, and payment rates have increased for cost-of-living adjustments since 1975, according to the agency.