Why Supplemental Security Income recipients were affected by a calendar glitch this month

Social Security's Supplemental Security Income recipients will not see a check coming in September. The monthly benefit checks are typically received the first of the month, but since September 1 fell on a Sunday, the payments were sent out on Friday, August 30.

Supplemental Security Income, SSI, is a program for low-income seniors and disable adults. The scheduled date for payments is laid out in advance by the Social Security Administration and the calendar year is available for recipients to review and plan ahead.

The next time the beneficiaries of this program will be affected by the calendar quirk will be in December, 2024, when the checks will be sent out on Friday, November 29. Then, once again in January, since New Year is an official holiday. Those payments will be made on December 31.

The full schedule for 2025 is available for review, listing all of the Social Security benefit payments.

Approximately 7.5 million people receive SSI benefits, with a maximum payment set at $9431 for individuals and $1,415 for qualifying recipients with an elegible spouse.

Regular Social Security retirement recipients will not be affected and will receive their checks as expected in September.

In a separate announcement, the SSA said last week that it will launch a new online application process starting this December. The rollout face will target new Social Security benefits and SSI applicants, ages 18 and 65, who have never been married.

The new system, called iClaim, aims to make the application process easier to fill-in and hopes to expedite processing times. iClaim's simplified application is expected to reach other SSI applicants in late 2025.