The Social Security Administration will be sending payments to more than 7 million people on Sept. 1.
Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, payments will hit accounts Tuesday, Sept. 1. They are the first SSI payments in more than a month. Prior to Sept.1, the last SSI payment was sent on July 31, a day ahead of schedule, as the agency does not distribute payments on weekends or holidays.
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The schedule for the remainder of the year will be varied as well.
SSI recipients will receive two payments in October- Thursday, Oct. 1 and Friday, Oct. 30 – because Nov. 1 falls on a Sunday. They will again receive two payments in December – Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Thursday, Dec. 31 – because Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, is the New Year’s Day federal holiday.
SSI payments average about $740 a month and go to some 7.4 million low-income senior citizens, people with disabilities and blindness.
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September Social Security payments
Traditional Social Security is paid based on the recipient’s day of birth. People born from the first – 10th are paid on the second Wednesday of the month; people born 11th – 30th- are paid on the third Wednesday; and people born 21st – 31st are paid on the fourth Wednesday.
In September, those dates are Wednesday, Sept. 9, 16 and 23rd.
More than 70 million people receive benefits from Social Security. The vast majority of these – 56 million – are retired workers and their dependents. The average monthly benefit for retired workers is $2,084.
