Why you will get two Social Security checks in May

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Mike Snider, USA TODAY

Thu, May 1, 2025, 1:01 AM 3 min read

This is 1 of those months erstwhile some Social Security recipients whitethorn person 3 checks deed their slope accounts.

Those who get Supplemental Security Income checks will get 2 checks successful the period of May – 1 for May and different for June – owed to quirks successful the Social Security Administration’s calendar.

About 7.4 cardinal Americans who whitethorn beryllium disabled oregon person constricted resources get monthly SSI payment payments. About one-third of those SSI recipients besides get a payment from Social Security. Those folks volition upwind up with 3 benefits payments hitting their relationship during the calendar period of May.

Traditional Social Security payments – for those who are older oregon retired – are issued connected Wednesdays passim the period for astir recipients. If your birthdate falls betwixt the archetypal and 10th of the month, that mean you are paid connected the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which this period is May 14; betwixt the 11th and 20th, you’re paid connected the 3rd Wednesday (May 21), and if you were calved aft the 20th of the month, you get paid connected the 4th Wednesday of the period (May 28), according to the SSA calendar.

Social Security recipients who began getting benefits earlier May 1997 are paid connected the 3rd of the period – if they besides get SSI, that payment comes connected the 1st.

An American emblem flutters successful the upwind adjacent to signage for a Social Security Administration bureau successful Burbank, California connected October 25, 2012.

As it was successful February, SSI recipients volition get 2 checks successful the period of May. The May SSI outgo is scheduled to beryllium issued connected May 1, according to the SSA calendar, and the June SSI outgo is scheduled for May 30. The June outgo is issued aboriginal due to the fact that June 1 falls connected a weekend.

That means successful June, as it was successful March, SSI beneficiaries volition not get a outgo successful that calendar month.

This recurring calendar quirk crops up again successful August erstwhile SSI recipients volition get 2 checks – the August outgo connected Aug. 1 and the September outgo connected Aug. 29 – but nary outgo successful the calendar period of September.

SSI recipients volition besides get 2 checks successful October, but not 1 successful the calendar period of November, according to the SSA calendar.

Supplemental Security Income checks volition beryllium sent retired connected the pursuing dates successful 2025, according to the SSA calendar.