Social Security Disability checks have increased for all Social Security Disability beneficiaries in the United States. This means that if you have already received a check in January you will have noticed that you have gotten a few extra dollars without doing anything to get them. However, those Americans who have not yet gotten this month’s payment still have to wait to find out what their final increase will be.
In this regard, there are still two checks for Disability beneficiaries that may arrive in the month of January 2024. These two checks are for the last two groups of beneficiaries. It is possible to get only one of these checks, but only as long as we have not yet cashed one of the payments in the previous mailings.
If we have already cashed a retirement, disability or other payment, we will not be able to cash another check. Social Security is only possible to get once a month, so we cannot expect to have more than one check each month. If you are in retiree group 3 or 4, you will have to wait a very short time to receive the new benefit. Do you know what your final Social Security check will be in 2024?
Who will get the new Disability payment with an extra $195?
Only one group of beneficiaries can get the extra $195 Disability payment. And that group is none other than beneficiaries with a maximum check. And that is because the COLA increase of 3.2% over the previous year has an effect of increasing that amount in the maximum checks sent by the Social Security Administration to this group of retirees.
This does not mean that the rest of the beneficiaries who do not have the maximum benefit will not get a check increase. On the contrary, each beneficiary gets a different increase depending on the check he or she will cash in 2023. So your previous year’s check will increase by 3.2% regardless of your previous benefit.
The maximum check in this year 2024 is 3,822 for retirees with a disability. This payment is not the maximum for all beneficiaries, but only for this category, which also coincides with retirees with a Full Retirement Age benefit. Still, remember that each beneficiary gets a different check.
When will the next Social Security payments arrive with the increase?
In January 2024, two different checks may still arrive for United States retirees. These two checks will be on January 17th and January 24th. In order to collect each of these payments we need to meet specific requirements. The first of these requirements will be to have the benefit since after 1997. That requirement is for both days.
But there is another requirement for each day. In the case of the January 17th payment, it is also mandatory to be between the 11th and 20th of the month. In the case of the payment on the 24th of January, it is necessary to have a birthday between the 21st and 31st of any month.
The month of birth does not matter, nor does the year. The important thing to get this check for Disability is to comply with these two mandatory requirements. This is the only way to obtain the benefit on the established days.