{"id":36462,"date":"2025-03-15T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/?p=36462"},"modified":"2025-07-14T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:13:36","slug":"2nd-round-wed-social-security-payment-checks-5108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/2nd-round-wed-social-security-payment-checks-5108\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Round of Wednesday Social Security Payments: Checks on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 19<\/strong> will be the second Wednesday payment<\/strong> for eligible retirees<\/strong>. It has been confirmed by the Social Security Administration<\/strong>‘s payment schedule that a new payday is on the way.<\/p>\n

Those retirees who qualified for a monthly payment on March 3 or March 12 are not eligible. The main requirement that Social Security<\/strong> has to do with the day you were born. However, you cannot receive it if you are receiving SSI<\/strong> (Supplemental Security Income) and if you got benefits before May 1997.<\/p>\n

Social Security and eligibility for March 19<\/h2>\n

Retirees who qualify for the Social Security payment<\/strong> on the second round of Wednesday checks and direct deposits<\/strong> must:<\/p>\n

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  • have been born from 11-20<\/li>\n
  • not be on SSI<\/li>\n
  • be on Social Security after April 30, 1997<\/li>\n
  • remain eligible and not break SSA rules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The thing is, some retirees meet most requirements, but they were born from the 21st to the 31st. Then, they will have to wait for the Social Security payment<\/strong> due on March 26, 2025.<\/p>\n

    Social Security maximum payments<\/h2>\n

    The Administration can issue monthly payments of up to $5,108<\/strong> if you were a high earner for 35 years or more. All the 4 conditions are mandatory:<\/p>\n

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    • filing at the age of 70 is required<\/li>\n
    • working for 35 years<\/li>\n
    • having jobs that pay payroll taxes to SSA<\/li>\n
    • earning the contribution and benefit base for 35 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Those who meet the last 3 requirements but file at Full Retirement Age<\/strong> will receive up to $4,018. Early filing at 62 is possible but it reduces your Social Security payment by 30%. The maximum amount at this age is $2,831. Average payments are worth $1,978.<\/p>\n

      The contribution and benefit base refers to the taxable maximum.<\/strong> For your information, this taxable maximum is annually updated. Therefore, it always goes up when inflation does so. In 2025, the taxable maximum is $176,100,<\/strong> up from $168,600 in 2024. So it is such a high amount that few workers can earn it for 35 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      March 19 will be the second Wednesday payment for eligible retirees. It has been confirmed by the Social Security Administration‘s payment schedule that a new payday is on the way. Those retirees who qualified for a monthly payment on March 3 or March 12 are not eligible. The main requirement that Social Security has to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"The Social Security Administration (SSA) will deliver 2 more monthly retirement payments in March","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"custom","post_date_format_custom":"m\/d\/Y H:i","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,41,37],"class_list":["post-36462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-payment","tag-retirement","tag-social-security"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}