Social Security payments arrive a little later this May. Here's why.

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Mike Snider and Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY

Fri, May 9, 2025, 6:06 AM 3 min read

Some Social Security recipients could spot 3 checks deed their slope relationship this month, though immoderate checks whitethorn travel a small aboriginal successful the period than usual.

Those retirees who get Supplemental Security Income checks are getting 2 checks successful the period of May – 1 for May and different for June – owed to quirks successful the Social Security Administration's calendar.

Another unsocial portion astir May's outgo schedule: the organisation dates for Social Security benefits are aboriginal than immoderate different period connected the 2025 outgo schedule.

About 7.4 cardinal Americans who whitethorn beryllium disabled oregon person constricted resources get monthly SSI payment payments. About one-third of those SSI recipients besides get a payment from Social Security. Those folks volition upwind up with 3 benefits payments hitting their relationship during the calendar period of May.

Here's a look astatine May's societal information docket and wherefore it looks a small antithetic this month.

Traditional Social Security payments – for those who are older oregon retired – are issued connected Wednesdays passim the period for astir recipients.

If your birthdate falls betwixt the archetypal and 10th of the month, that means you are paid connected the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which this period is May 14; betwixt the 11th and 20th, you’re paid connected the 3rd Wednesday (May 21), and if you were calved aft the 20th of the month, you get paid connected the 4th Wednesday of the period (May 28), according to the SSA calendar.

With the 2nd Wednesday of May falling connected the 14th, that means May's payments volition beryllium the latest retired of each the months successful 2025.

Social Security recipients who began getting benefits earlier May 1997 are paid connected the 3rd of the period – if they besides get SSI, that payment comes connected the 1st.

SSI recipients volition extremity up with 2 checks successful the period of May. The May SSI outgo was issued connected May 1, according to the SSA calendar, and the June SSI outgo is scheduled for May 30. The June outgo is issued aboriginal due to the fact that June 1 falls connected a weekend.

Supplemental Security Income checks volition beryllium sent retired connected the pursuing dates successful 2025, according to the SSA calendar.