If you have a United States Social Security retirement benefit and want to get a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payment, you should know that it is possible. However, you have to meet the requirements to get the payment, so you should take a clear look at all the details you must comply with.
Thus, the payments of this benefit can grant a check of up to $967 for those Americans in need. If you are in this group, you can get one of these checks every month, although the amount is not always the same for all SSI recipients.
In this way, the good thing about the SSI benefit is that we can combine it without problems with Social Security, but it is not mandatory to have retirement to get SSI. The two checks are fully compatible but independent.
requirements for the monthly SSI payment in February
As with SSI payments in the other months of the check, the February SSI payment has requirements. If we do not meet them, we will not get the payment for the month. Remember that these requirements are totally mandatory.
In this sense, we find that the requirements to obtain monthly SSI are:
- Be 65 years of age or older or have a disability.
- Have low resources in addition to low monthly income.
If both requirements are met, we can get an SSI payment without any problems as long as we have applied for the benefit before. This payment always arrives on the 1st of each month, with some exceptions. If we have such a check, we can get an additional $967 each month.
Of course, each American with SSI gets a different payment. The maximum payment does not imply that we have to have a check with a similar amount. Thus, some Americans get a check for $350 and another for around $600 per month. The payment depends directly on our monthly income.
