{"id":292293,"date":"2026-10-15T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/?p=292293"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:48:00","slug":"ssi-2027-payment-1029-first-increase-december-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/ssi-2027-payment-1029-first-increase-december-31\/","title":{"rendered":"SSI will pay up to $1,029 a month in 2027: recipients will see the first increase on Thursday, December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficiaries of <strong>Supplemental Security Income (SSI)<\/strong> are the first who will notice the <strong>3.6% COLA<\/strong> confirmed this Wednesday by the <strong>Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/strong>. The maximum federal payment rises to <strong>$1,029 a month for an individual<\/strong> in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>SSI is a needs-based program for people who are <strong>65 or older, blind or disabled<\/strong> and have very limited income and resources. It is funded by general tax revenue, not by Social Security payroll taxes, and more than 7 million people receive it.<\/p>\n<h2>New SSI amounts for 2027<\/h2>\n<p>The federal payment standard, which is the maximum amount SSI pays before any reduction for other income, will be the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Individual<\/strong> | from $994 to $1,029 a month (+$35).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligible couple<\/strong> | from $1,491 to $1,544 a month (+$53).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many recipients receive less than the maximum because SSI is reduced by other income. For example, a person who also collects a small Social Security check sees the SSI amount lowered after the first $20 of that check. We explained how this works in our article about <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/ssi-social-security-concurrent-994-to-714-income-exclusions-2026\/\">receiving SSI and Social Security together<\/a>. Some states also add a state supplement on top of the federal amount.<\/p>\n<h2>The first increased payment arrives on December 31<\/h2>\n<p>SSI is paid on the <strong>1st of each month<\/strong>, but when that day falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the money is deposited on the previous business day. January 1, 2027 is New Year&#8217;s Day, so the SSI payment for January will be deposited on <strong>Thursday, December 31, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That deposit will already include the <strong>3.6% COLA<\/strong>. This means SSI recipients will receive two payments in December: the regular one on Tuesday, December 1, and the January payment on December 31. It is not an extra check, but an early deposit of the following month.<\/p>\n<h2>What recipients need to do<\/h2>\n<p>Nothing. The increase is applied automatically. SSA will send each recipient a notice with the new amount, and those with a <em>my Social Security<\/em> account can see it online before the letter arrives.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>resource limits<\/strong> do not change with the COLA: they remain at <strong>$2,000 for an individual<\/strong> and <strong>$3,000 for a couple<\/strong>, the same figures that have been in place since 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Before January, there is still one more date to mark: SSI recipients will get their November payment early, on <strong>Friday, October 30<\/strong>, because November 1 falls on a Sunday. The schedule is similar to what happened in the summer, when <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/social-security-payment-dates-september-2026-to-october-1\/\">payments restarted on September 1 with SSI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 3.6% COLA, the SSI federal payment rises to $1,029 for individuals and $1,544 for couples. The first higher deposit arrives December 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,2,3],"class_list":["post-292293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-cola","tag-social-security","tag-ssi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292293","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=292293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292295,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292293\/revisions\/292295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}