When will social security recipients get third stimulus checks?

As a result, the majority of those who receive Social Security retirement and disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Railroad Retirement Board benefits — and didn’t file

2019 or 2020 tax returns or use the IRS online Non-Filers Tool last year — got their payments around April 7, mostly through direct deposits or payments to existing Direct Express cards.

The IRS began sending those 25 million payments, worth $36 billion, on April 2. Additional payments have been sent every week since then. The updated information from the SSA helped ensure

that direct deposits go to correct bank accounts and that paper checks and debit cards go to correct mailing addresses. The revised information should also reduce the number of payments sent

to deceased individuals, which was a problem in the first two rounds of economic stimulus. Anyone who died in 2020 or earlier isn’t eligible for the third stimulus payment. Now, however,

the SSA says that if you haven’t gotten a first, second or third stimulus payment – or if you haven’t gotten the full amount – you need to file a 2020 tax return and claim the 2020 recovery

rebate credit (RRC) as soon as possible. People should file the 2020 tax return even if they have no income to report for 2020. When the tax return is processed, the IRS will pay the RRC as

a tax refund. The IRS will send any additional third stimulus amount owed in 2021 separately. If people already filed their 2020 tax return, they do not need to do anything else. STIMULUS

CHECKS FOR DEPENDENTS, VA BENEFICIARIES Payments to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiaries who don’t normally file taxes and who didn’t use the IRS online Non-Filers tool last

year started going out April 9, with a payable date of April 14. The batch of 2 million stimulus payments, worth more than $3.4 million, also went to eligible people who had not filed a tax

return until this year and didn’t use the IRS Non-Filers Tool last year. Some of these payments were what the IRS calls “plus-up” payments to those who got stimulus payments based on their

2019 returns and then filed 2020 returns. The third round of stimulus checks, authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act, provides a maximum of $1,400 to eligible individuals, $2,800 to

couples and $1,400 to dependents. Unlike the previous two rounds, there’s no age limit on stimulus checks for dependents, so it’s possible to get a check for a dependent college-age student

or an aged parent. Because dependents are claimed on tax returns, the IRS can use that information to send out stimulus payments for dependents to tax filers.