Some Social Security Recipients Could Get 3 Payments This Month: Here’s Why

The reason has to do with the Social Security payment schedule.

Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

Some Social Security recipients who get both retirement payments and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) could see three checks deposited in their accounts in May because of how the month is scheduled.

Retirees who receive SSI payments will receive two checks, including one for May that should have already been sent out on the first of the month, and one for June, according to the Social Security calendar.

SSI and Social Security Recipients

The first SSI payment that went out in May should have already been distributed on May 1, according to the agency’s calendar. The one for June is scheduled to go out on May 30 because the first of the month in June falls on a weekend.