If you are a United States Disability beneficiary you may be interested to know that just today the Social Security Administration is sending out a new check with a little extra money added to it. That extra money is the COLA 2024 and it makes your check this March bigger than your March 2023 check.
So, by completing just two steps you can get this new Disability benefit. If you complete these two steps, it means that you are part of group 4 of retirees. And this group always collects its benefit on the fourth Wednesday of each month. There may be exceptions to this, but it is customary to follow this payment structure.
Likewise, the method of collection is also key to being able to get the payment on the same day it is sent. Even so, it does not matter if we do not have the fastest collection method. The important thing in these cases is to have a disability payment and get it. Having it sooner or later will depend on that collection method, but it is not essential.
Steps for today’s March 27th Disability payment
The first of the steps to get this new Social Security check is to have the benefit since after 1997. To be more precise, Disability beneficiaries must have applied for a retirement check as of May 1997.
Only then will they be able to fulfill the first of the mandatory steps to be part of the group that collects the benefit today. On the other hand, the second step is to have a birthday between the 21st and 31st of any month.
In this way, it does not matter if the Disability retiree has a birthday in May, July or September. The important thing is only the day of birth. So with that information it is enough to be part of the group.
How to collect today’s Social Security quickly?
In addition to those two steps mentioned above there is a third extra additional payment that will help us to have a Disability check as soon as possible. That other extra requirement is to activate Direct Deposit.
Thanks to this collection method we will be able to enjoy the payment at the very moment the Social Security Administration sends it. If we do not have this collection method activated, we will be able to collect the check in the days following the mailing.
Since this is the last payment of the month, retirees who are not part of this group will have to wait until April for a new Disability payment. However, each April payment day will have its own requirements.