Social Security Payments 2023: Your September Check Might Come This Week - CNET

Two rounds of September Social Security checks person gone retired truthful acold this month, with different 1 connected the mode this week. If you haven't received a outgo yet, beryllium connected the lookout this week (or next). Also, if you person Supplemental Security Income, you should've received your wealth connected Friday, Sept. 1.

If you don't person a outgo this week, there's a bully crushed why. The Social Security Administration disburses its checks successful aggregate rounds passim the month, truthful yours could beryllium coming astatine different time, depending connected your commencement date. We'll assistance you find retired erstwhile your Social Security outgo should get and archer you however your outgo day is determined. If you conscionable started receiving Social Security benefits, larn the best clip to statesman collecting your benefits and however to intermission them for a bigger payout later. 

When volition I get my September Social Security check?

Here's the September schedule (PDF) for erstwhile you should person your Social Security cheque and/or SSI money:

• Sept. 1: Social Security payments for radical who've received Social Security since earlier May 1997.
• Sept. 13: Social Security payments for those with birthdays falling betwixt the archetypal and 10th of immoderate fixed month.
• Sept. 20: Social Security payments for folks with birthdays falling betwixt the 11th and 20th of immoderate fixed month.
• Sept. 27: Social Security payments for radical with birthdays falling betwixt the 21st and 31st of immoderate fixed month.
  

How are Social Security outgo dates determined?

The Social Security Administration typically sends retired payments connected the second, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. Which time you person your cheque depends connected your commencement date. 

• If your day falls betwixt the archetypal and 10th of the month, your outgo volition beryllium sent retired connected the 2nd Wednesday of the month.
• If your day falls betwixt the 11th and 20th of the month, your outgo volition beryllium sent retired connected the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
• If your day falls betwixt the 21st and 31st of the month, your outgo volition beryllium sent retired connected the 4th Wednesday of the month.

Payments for SSI recipients mostly get connected the archetypal of each period with a fewer exceptions we get into below.

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What if I person some Social Security and SSI?

If you received Social Security benefits earlier May 1997, oregon if you person some Social Security and SSI, the outgo docket is different. Instead of getting your payments connected a Wednesday, you'll person your Social Security outgo connected the 3rd time of each period and your SSI connected the archetypal time of each month.

However, those outgo dates alteration if the archetypal oregon 3rd time of the period falls connected a play oregon a holiday. For instance, July 1 fell connected a Saturday this year, truthful SSI recipients received their July payments a time early, connected June 30, and their Social Security payments should person arrived connected July 3. 

What if I don't person my cheque connected the expected date?

If your cheque doesn't get connected the day listed supra based connected your commencement day oregon different circumstances, the Social Security Administration says to hold 3 further mailing days earlier reaching out.
If you inactive haven't received it, you tin talk with a typical astatine 800-772-1213. (The SSA notes that hold times are shorter Wednesday done Friday and betwixt 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. connected weekday afternoons.)

You tin besides entree your Social Security benefits online.

This nonfiction is updated monthly arsenic outgo dates change.