When Social Security Recipients Can Expect First Boosted Payments to Arrive in 2023

Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 11, 2005. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

Social Security recipients started receiving a significant increase in their benefits this week amid decades-high inflation that sparked an 8.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment last year.

The first payments with the adjustment for 2023 were already disbursed for many Social Security recipients, with more coming throughout the month.