Social Security retirees will not be receiving a check this week, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA) schedule of payments.
Social Security payments are administered monthly, paying benefits to around 70 million people. When benefits are paid into bank accounts depends on your date of birth and what type of benefit you collect.
The SSA makes its first round of retirement benefits for all whose claim began after May 1997 either in the second or third week of the month. Payments are made in the second week of the month if it starts on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Payments go out in the third week if the month starts on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
As August began on a Thursday this year, payments will not go out this week but will instead go out next week, beginning on Wednesday, August 14, for those with birthdays that fall between the 1st and 10th of any given month in the year.
Those who have a birthday between the 11th and the 20th will receive their monthly amount on August 21, and anyone born between the 21st and 31st of any month will have their benefits paid on August 28.
Some recipients will already have their checks for this month, including those who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a benefit that provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability, blindness, and to adults aged 65 and older, and those who have been claiming retirement benefits since before May 1997.
If you have not received your benefits when expected, the SSA recommends waiting three working days before contacting them.
Later this month, SSI recipients will get another payment for September slightly earlier than would usually be expected. This is because the usual payment date of September 1 falls on a weekend.
“We do this to avoid putting you at a financial disadvantage and make sure that you don’t have to wait beyond the first of the month to get your payment,” the SSA said in a 2022 blog post. “It does not mean that you are receiving a duplicate payment in the previous month, so you do not need to contact us to report the second payment.”
The amount received by Social Security recipients varies because it is based on several factors such as the age at which benefits were claimed and the individual’s highest-earning years of work. Across all retired workers, the average benefit paid out in June 2024 was $1,869.77, according to the latest data from the SSA.
