On Wednesday, April 16, many Americans receiving Social Security retirement benefits will get their most recent benefit check of the month.
Additionally, payments to specific beneficiaries of survivor benefits and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) are scheduled to be made by the Social Security Administration (SSA) on that day.
As part of a staggered system that determines a person's payment based on their date of birth, many of the 68 million Americans who receive retirement, SSDI, or survivor benefits get their money on one of three Wednesdays per month.
Checks for beneficiaries born between the eleventh and twentieth of each month are due today. On Wednesday, April 23, the three-Wednesday routine will resume.
Beneficiaries born from April 1st to April 10th on Wednesday, April 9th Beneficiaries born on Wednesday, April 16th, ages 11 to 20 Beneficiaries born between the 21st and the 31st of April, Wednesday, April 23
If your SSDI, retirement, or survivor benefits began prior to May 1997, your check is typically paid on the third of the month, regardless of your birthday. This means that some long-term Social Security users do not receive their payments on Wednesdays.
Those who get payments as part of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a different SSA program, are also exempt from the three-Wednesdays rule.
In contrast to the three benefit plans mentioned above, SSI is a means-tested program that is typically disbursed on the first of the month and is not reliant on recipients' payment of Social Security taxes.
Accordingly, the first Tuesday of the month was the deadline for distributing April's SSI checks.
It's also important to remember that some Americans receive both regular Social Security benefits and SSI. Typically, the former is paid to these recipients on the first, and the latter on the third.