RSDI payments are for retirees, survivors, and people on Social Security Disability Insurance. Retirees aged 62 or older can get an average payment worth $1,978 as of January 2025.
However, if you are on survivor or disability benefits, you will receive a lower average payment if eligible. For example, survivors can get about $1,546 on average. Besides, the average SSDI payment is worth $1,580.
RSDI: eligibility for March 12 or 19
Social Security recipients who started collecting RSDI payments after April 30, 1997, may qualify if they were born from the 1st to the 10th on March 12, 2025. If you were born after that date and before the 21st, you will have to wait for an additional week.
Therefore, your next payday will be due on March 19, 2025. So, only those born from 11-20 will get money on the 19th, whether they get retirement, survivors or disability insurance benefits.
Supplemental Security Income recipients who are on RSDI as well are not eligible for any of the last 3 payments in March. Social Security will distribute their payments on April 3, 2025.
RSDI average payment amounts
Retirees can get about $1,978 on average. The maximum payment in retirement is not this amount. As a matter of fact, it could be up to $2,831 at 62, up to $4,018 at 66 years and 10 months, or up to $5,108 at 70.
Survivors have an average payment of $1,546 as of January 2025. Nonetheless, a disabled widow(er) can receive about $951 on average. Nondisabled widow(er) receives about $1,835 on average.
Widowed mothers and fathers receive about $1,302. Those RSDI recipients who are getting SSDI payments get about $1,580 on average. A spouse of a worker with a disability can receive about $431. Their children can get about $510 on average stated Social Security in February.
To get RSDI payments on your record, you must have worked and paid enough taxes to the Social Security Administration. For example, at 62 you must have earned 40 work credits to get retirement benefits in the U.S.
