Although it is customary for a United States citizen with a Social Security benefit to get one check a month in December, it is even possible to get two checks in the same week. This is due to an irregularity in the calendar but only a specific group can take advantage of this benefit.
If you meet certain requirements, you will be on the list of Americans eligible to receive two different checks from the Social Security Administration in the last week of December. In that case you will get one payment on the 27th and another payment on the 29th.
Without a doubt, being able to collect two payments before the year 2024 arrives is great news. And the fact is that in these last days of the year all citizens have a lot of expenses due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
That is why it is so important to know the schedule of Social Security payments, since it allows us to have a better organization in the economic sphere of the household. In this case, with two checks in the same week the economy can improve a lot, so it is important to know if we will get the payments or not.
REQUIREMENTS TO GET TWO SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS THIS WEEK
It is possible to cash two Social Security checks this last week of December. To do so, we must meet several requirements. It is important to meet all of them if we want to get the payments before the end of 2023.
While it is true that some of these requirements are not fundamental for the Administration to send us the payment, it is key to comply with all of them so that the payment is not delayed until next year 2024.
These are all the mandatory requirements to collect the two Social Security checks in the last week of 2023:
- Have a birthday between the 21st and 31st of any month.
- Have applied for a retirement benefit since after 1997.
- Have Supplemental Security Income accepted.
- Activate Direct Deposit as a payment method.
With these requirements, we will get a retirement payment on December 27th and the January 2024 Supplemental Security Income payment on December 29th. The first of these payments will have a maximum check of $4,555 and the second a maximum payment of $943, as it will have next year’s COLA included.
After this payment we will have to wait until 2024 to get a benefit. This month’s calendar will follow the usual order, so we will not have too many irregularities in it. Therefore, we will be able to continue with the Social Security payments as usual, although remember that they will have the COLA included starting next month.