The new payment schedule for April is ready. The Social Security Administration has confirmed that there will be 4 possible paydays for retired workers in the United States next month.
Retirees aged 62 or older can receive Social Security payments on April 3, 9, 16, or 23. It will depend on the year you file and your birth date when your retirement benefit will be deposited in your bank account.
Social Security for the 1997 group
Some retirees have been for more than 28 years on retirement benefits. Therefore, you are no longer 62 and your payment amount will be different one, perhaps. Those who started on Social Security before May 1997 get Social Security on April 3, 2025.
Being a Supplemental Security Income while on Social Security makes you eligible for the April 3 payment. Again, you will not qualify for a large payment because SSI is for low-income recipients.
On average, retirees get about $1,980. However, if you are on Supplemental Security your payment may be much lower. Let’s have a look at the payment for those on benefits after April 30, 1997.
Social Security checks of up to $2,831
62-year-olds who can get up to $2,831 will get one of the Wednesday payments. Social Security issues payments on the second, third and fourth Wednesday in April.
Those retirees aged 62 who were born:
- before the 11th will get their SSA payment on April 9, 2025
- after the 10th but before the 21st will get their retirement benefit payment on April 16, 2025
- after the 20th will get their retirement benefit payment on April 23, 2025
If you still receive paper checks, you’d better visit your local office to update your bank account information and get direct deposits instead. In this way, you will get payments faster and it will be much more secure.
To get $2,831 you must have worked for 35 years, filed at 62, have jobs covered by SSA and earned the taxable maximum all those years. The average payment for 62-year-olds are about $1,300.