Each and every person in the United States may be eligible to receive a monthly Social Security check. By simply meeting a number of requirements, a citizen can apply for a Social Security retirement benefit to receive it every month. These benefit payments are divided into several days during the month.
And this week in May is the last week that the Social Security Administration sends checks to beneficiaries. Any beneficiary who is not in this group should already have a payment by today. Even so, there may be some delays for reasons outside the Administration itself. But if you are in this group, get ready to receive the last payment for the month of May in just a few hours.
In any case, what is certain is that the Administration will send the check. Whether the beneficiary or pensioner receives it does not depend on Social Security itself, but on the collection method chosen. So if you don’t receive it within 48 hours, you may not have the fastest collection method to receive your SSA benefits.
Latest group to receive United States Social Security benefits
Within the Social Security Administration’s payment system retirees are divided into different groups. These groups are made up of retirees who have birthdays at different times of the month. Likewise, the year of retirement is also critical in determining which group each American belongs to.
The requirements to obtain the last of the Social Security checks are:
- Have retirement since after 1997. If our benefit is before this year, the pensioner’s check will always arrive on the 3rd day of the month, although there are some exceptions. If the pensioner’s pension is later, the check arrives on the second, third or fourth Wednesday of each month.
- Birthdays between the 21st and 31st. The last group to receive Social Security for the month is composed of retirees who were born between the last ten days of the month. The rest of the beneficiaries receive their check earlier.
In addition to this, remember that it is mandatory to activate Direct Deposit to receive the check without having to wait a single day. If this method of payment is not activated, the money may arrive up to 3 days later. This could mean that the check may take until the following Monday, since there is a weekend in between.
The exact day the Social Security Administration will send this check is May 24, 2023. And only the aforementioned group will be able to count on this benefit money.