Stimulus Checks for Social Security, SSI Recipients Delayed Over IRS Paperwork

[Galraedia]

Stimulus payments for recipients of Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and other federal benefits have been delayed because the Internal Revenue Service has not received the required paperwork from the Social Security Administration.

According to a letter sent to the SSA on Wednesday by the House ways and means committee, nearly 30 million people are still waiting to receive stimulus payments because the SSA "has not sent the necessary payment files."

The committee demanded that the SSA provide the paperwork by Thursday, March 25. The IRS and SSA have not provided an update since the letter was sent.

The IRS has yet to announce a payment date for recipients of federal benefits. In its latest statement on Wednesday, it said more information would be provided "as soon as it becomes available."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/stimulus-payment-update-social-security-ssa-fails-send-irs-paperwork-1578698

[2naSalit]

1. Somebody needs to have...

A big bonfire built under their ass!

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2. That's so odd. I wonder what the deal is.

I'm on Social Security and I got my stimulus on the 17th. I wonder if it's recipients who didn't file taxes or don't have direct deposit.

[BComplex]

3. That's what I was wondering, catbyte. Same here. eom

[Trueblue1968]

11. hubby and i have not gotten our stim check yet. we are both on SS

[bedazzled]

5. i file taxes, got first 2 immediately

am still waiting.

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7. It's so random. They need to find a way to jettison every holdover from that crime spree

disguised as an "administration." I hope you get yours soon.

[bedazzled]

9. like killing roaches

need some raid

[Politicub]

6. Social Security Administrator is a swamp creature from the Trump era

Same thing with DeJoy... a board appoints the administrator, and the board was filled with Trump cronies.

In other words, Trump's guy is still in charge of people's social security. Yep.

[PunksMom]

4. I don't file taxes

I did get my first two payments immediately, but I’m still waiting for this current one. I’m wondering why it would matter this time if people didn’t file a return?

[MineralMan]

8. The IRS doesn't deal with non-filers, really.

And there's the problem. Many SS and SSDI recipients don't make enough to have to file with the IRS. That means that the IRS may not have addresses and bank account information on hand for those who don't file. Worse, a lot of SS and SSDI recipients don't use computers or smart phones well enough to navigate the IRS's stupid website, with its faulty input field verification that doesn't have any cutsomer-facing error handling routines.

Both the IRS and Social Security Administration have historically kept their records separate, particularly bank records.

So, the IRS doesn't know everyone who should be getting stimulus payments. the SSA has tried very hard to make automatic bank deposits the standard for the benefits they send out. They have the deposit information, addresses, and SS#s. That should have been shared with the IRS from the very beginning, if the IRS was going to send out the stimulus payments.

But it wasn't shared, and the SSA has been reluctant to share the information, for some reason I don't understand.

Then, there are all those people who don't have bank accounts to deposit the money in, and who may have moved and not changed their addresses with the IRS, since they don't have to file. That makes them virtually invisible to the IRS, but not to the SSA.

A recipe for failure to send the stimulus money to those who need it most.

[Kaleva]

10. I'm on SSDI, file to get state benefits and got the 1st 2 promptly. Still waiting on this one.

I don't need the stimulus check so waiting awhile isn't a problem. I'm going to use it to buy materials to put a new metal roof on the small home. I don't need to pay for labor as much younger members of the family will be doing the work.

[Lucinda]

12. I dont file taxes - my disability is deposited monthly and there was no problem with checks 1 & 2

but not 3 yet.
This seems to be simply a matter of the files not being sent as requested

From what I have seen online - seems like most of the SS folks who got checks already were tax filers