{"id":292184,"date":"2026-10-05T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/?p=292184"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:47:00","slug":"social-security-payment-next-week-october-14-birthdays-1-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/social-security-payment-next-week-october-14-birthdays-1-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security payment next week: retirees and disability beneficiaries born between the 1st and 10th get paid on Wednesday, October 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week without regular deposits, the <strong>Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/strong> resumes its payments next week. On <strong>Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/strong>, millions of <strong>retirees<\/strong> and <strong>disability beneficiaries<\/strong> will receive their monthly benefit in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone will be paid that day, however. The date depends on the <strong>day of the month you were born<\/strong> and on when you started receiving benefits, so it is important to check whether you are part of this group.<\/p>\n<h2>Who gets paid on Wednesday, October 14<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/pubs\/EN-05-10031-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official 2026 payment schedule of the SSA<\/a>, the payment of October 14 is for beneficiaries <strong>born between the 1st and the 10th of any month<\/strong> who receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Retirement benefits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Survivors benefits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spouses and children who receive benefits based on another person&#8217;s work record are paid according to the <strong>birth date of that worker<\/strong>. For example, if your spouse was born on the 6th and you receive a spousal benefit, your payment will also arrive on October 14.<\/p>\n<h2>Who will not get paid that day<\/h2>\n<p>Some beneficiaries should not expect any money on October 14:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who started receiving Social Security <strong>before May 1997<\/strong>. They were already paid on <strong>Friday, October 2<\/strong>, because October 3 fell on a Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>People who receive <strong>both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)<\/strong>. Their Social Security payment also arrived on October 2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SSI-only<\/strong> recipients, who were paid on <strong>Thursday, October 1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Beneficiaries born <strong>after the 10th<\/strong>, who will be paid later in the month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The rest of the October calendar<\/h2>\n<p>After October 14, there are two more payment dates this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, October 21<\/strong>: beneficiaries born between the <strong>11th and the 20th<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, October 28<\/strong>: beneficiaries born between the <strong>21st and the 31st<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is also worth noting that the November SSI payment will arrive early. Because <strong>November 1 falls on a Sunday<\/strong>, the SSA will send it on <strong>Friday, October 30<\/strong>. This is not an extra payment: it is the November benefit, paid in advance.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the payment always lands on a Wednesday<\/h2>\n<p>Since 1997, the SSA spreads payments across the month to avoid sending all the money on the same day. Those whose benefits are linked to a date of birth are paid on the <strong>second, third or fourth Wednesday<\/strong> of each month. The rule does not change, so once you know your group, you know your payment day for every month of the year.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do if the money does not arrive<\/h2>\n<p>If the deposit does not appear on October 14, the SSA asks beneficiaries to <strong>wait three additional business days<\/strong> before contacting the agency. After that, you can call <strong>1-800-772-1213<\/strong> (TTY 1-800-325-0778) or review your payment information in your <strong>my Social Security<\/strong> account.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive both benefits, you may also be interested in our article on <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/ssi-social-security-concurrent-994-to-714-income-exclusions-2026\/\">how SSI and Social Security work together<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security pays on Wednesday, October 14, to retirees and SSDI beneficiaries born between the 1st and the 10th. Who qualifies and the next dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-292184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292192,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292184\/revisions\/292192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}