When the timing of Social Security payments varies, many people in the United States receive their retirement checks later. There are also beneficiaries who may receive checks earlier.
Even so, beneficiaries who receive checks later are in luck today because they can collect the new benefit on the same day if they have the faster collection method enabled. However, not all Americans will receive Social Security on today’s date.
This benefit is only available to a specific group of beneficiaries. To receive the check, two conditions must be met. If we meet these requirements, the payment will reach our pockets and we will be able to use it on today’s date.
If the conditions are met but the fastest payment method is not selected, nothing will happen; the payment will still be received a few days later.
The most important security that Social Security provides is the assurance that we will be paid on time each month. Do you meet the requirements to receive a check today?
WHICH AMERICANS COLLECT SOCIAL SECURITY TODAY?
Americans who qualify for Social Security today must meet two requirements. These are required, and there is no way to qualify for today without meeting both of them.
So we must have a birthday on certain dates and have applied for Social Security benefits after a certain year.
More specifically, we’re talking about 1997. If our check arrived after that year, we would have already met half of the requirements.
The other half of the requirement is to have a birthday between the first and tenth of the month. This will put us in this group, and the Administration will send us the benefit on December 24th.
Also, in order to receive payment today, Direct Deposit must be activated. This method of payment is immediate, so we will not have to wait even a day to have the funds available.
If we do not activate this method of payment, we will simply have to wait a few days for the Social Security payments to appear in our bank account.
Other SSA Payments before the end of December 2024
Before the end of January 2025, we may receive another payment from Social Security. However, this payment is not from Social Security as such, but rather from the SSI benefit, an extra check that is an advance payment due on February 1st, 2025.
The payment will be sent on January 31st. This is the February 2025 Supplemental Security Income advance payment. This payment will include a 2.5% COLA increase.
After that payment, we will have to wait until February to receive a new check, so the 2025 January Social Security schedule will be completed on that date.