One of the great advantages of collecting a Social Security benefit, whether for Disability or otherwise, is that we know we will be collecting that money every month. And it’s even better when retirees in the United States can get a bigger check than in previous years.
And that’s what will happen to the group of retirees who collect their next check on April 10th. This Disability payment will see an increase over last year’s April payment. Mind you, it is the same increase that we have seen in the previous months of this year 2024. So, we will get the same payment as in January or February, but not the same amount as in April 2023.
Who gets the April 10th Disability payment?
Those Americans with a retirement benefit can get the April 10th check if they meet two requirements. There is no other extra requirement for the Social Security Administration to send this Disability check, although there is an extra one to have it available on the same day.
Note that in order to collect the April 10th payment we need to have the birthday between the 1st and 10th of any month. You also need to have applied for Social Security retirement as of May 1997.
Just meeting these two requirements is enough for the Administration to pay us our monthly retirement check on April 10th. And it is not necessary that the payment be for Disability, since any type of retirement will do.
How to get the Disability payment as soon as possible?
The collection method is the other essential requirement if we want to get Disability check as soon as possible. So if we choose Direct Deposit we will have the opportunity to use the benefit money on April 10th.
In the case of not activating Direct Deposit as a collection method, the money will still appear, albeit a little later. Remember that the announced payment schedule only lets us know the days on which the Social Security Administration sends checks. The day we have the checks available will depend on that collection method.
Also, if you are not part of the group of retirees who will get this benefit, please be aware that your payment could arrive in the next few weeks. The other remaining checks for Disability for the month of April will be on the 17th and 24th of this month of 2024.