SSI Recipients Will Get Automatic Pandemic Payments No Later Than May

Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin speaks while President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on COVID-19 in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House, on April 2, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Social Security Administration announced that recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will automatically get their pandemic stimulus payments directly to their bank accounts.

SSI recipients will get the money directly to their bank accounts through direct deposit, Direct Express debit card, or by paper check, according to the agency. It added that they will receive the payments “no later than early May.”