President Obama has recently announced that a one-time $250 stimulus check will be made in 2010 to recipients of Social Security. This bonus check is part of of his ongoing effort to stimulate the economy out of recession. Please note that Congress has yet to approve this bill.
Who is eligible for the $250 stimulus?
Anyone who is currently receiving Social Security (SS) payments will be eligible for the $250 check. There are also some other groups who will receive this check including SSI and disabled veterans.
[update - find out about the new $250 stimulus check in 2010 for SSI recipients]
Update -Will there be a stimulus check for 2010?]
[Update - Jan 4 - Will there be another stimulus check in 2010?]
When will the $250 checks be paid out?
It is not known at this time when the payments will be made but it is likely that they will be paid in the first quarter of 2010 (ie before the end of March).
Is there any income limit for the $250 payment?
No, it doesn’t matter if you have other income or if you are working or not. It doesn’t matter how much income you make – you will still get the check.
How much will this cost the government?
According to White house officials, the cost of all the stimulus checks will be $13 billion. A large amount of money but don’t forget that the stimulus package for 2009 was almost $800 billion.
Why is the government doing this?
The government is giving out this money in order to try to stimulate the economy. Because of problems in the financial markets and housing markets over the last 2 years, there has been a slowdown in economic activity in America and many job losses. By putting extra money into the economy it is hoped that the decline of the economy can be slowed down or even reversed.
Will there be a Social Security raise this year?
No, in fact part of the reason the $250 bonus check was created was to make up for the fact that there is no cost of living raise in Social Security payments this year.
Will it be a check or electronic payment?
The $250 should be given to you in the same format you currently receive your regular Social Security payment. If you get your SS payment by check then the $250 will also be by check. If you get your SS payment deposited in to your bank account then the $250 will also be deposited into your bank account.
More information on Social Security
Social Security provides the average retiree with a monthly check of about $1,150. The program provides 40 percent of all income received by elderly people in the United States; one in five older married couples and two in five older single people rely on it for at least 90 percent of their income.
Social Security Stimulus Check 2010 – FAQ
$250 stimulus check – should it be more?
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3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmates
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.
The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks.
Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren’t incarcerated in any one of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.
“The law specified that any beneficiary eligible for a Social Security benefit during one of those months was eligible for the recovery payment,” Lassiter said.
The other 1,700 checks? That was a mistake.
Checks were sent to those inmates because government records didn’t accurately show they were in prison, Lassiter said. He said most of those checks were returned by the prisons.
“We are currently reviewing each of those cases to determine whether or not the recovery payment was due,” Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. “Where we determine payment was not due, we will take aggressive action to recover each of these erroneous payments.”
The Boston Herald first reported that the checks were sent to inmates.
The inspector general for the Social Security Administration is performing an audit to make sure no checks went to ineligible recipients, spokesman George E. Penn said.
The audit, which had already been planned, will examine whether checks incorrectly went to inmates, dead people, fugitive felons or people living outside the U.S., Penn said.
The $787 billion economic recovery package included $2 million for the inspector general to oversee the provisions handled by the Social Security Administration. The audit is part of those efforts, Penn said. There is no timetable for its conclusion.
The federal government processed $13 billion in stimulus payments. About $425,000 was incorrectly sent to inmates.
RE FELONS CANNOT RECIEVE DDI BENIFITS. tHSI ONLY APPLIES WDURING INCARSERATION ONCE THEY ARE RELEASED THEY WILL CONTIBUE TO RECEIVE SSI BENIFITS.
ONCE A PRISONER IS RELEASED THEY JUST HAVE TO RE-UP THIER BENEFITS. MOST GET THIER BENEFITS FOR MENTAL ISSUES. SORRY BUT THIS IS THE LAW. I WORKED IN MENTAL HEATH LOCKU, MANY OF US ASSITED THEM IN GETTING THIER BENIFITS, WENT WITH THE JOB. mY HUSBAND WAS A
PSYCH. WHO WORKED IN A PRISON HE AND A COLLEAGUE WERE BOTH KILLED BY AN IMMATE WHO SOMEHOW WAS ABLE TO GET A SHAFT PASS THE QUARDS. SO YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS.
I CAN’T GFT SSI BECAUSE MY MOTHER DIES RECENTLY AND LEFT ME SOME LAND THAT i CAN’T SELL, SO IF YOU WANT TO SEE A REALLY ANGRY PERSON ABOUT THIS TH E HERE I AM.
LIKE I’VE SAID BE FORE THIS GOVENMENT IS BROKEN. oH AND THEY GET MEDICARE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND BOTH MEDI-CAL AND MEDI-CAL IN CALIFORNIA.
i took this off the socail security website…..
SOMEONE WHO IS A FUGITIVE FELON
An individual is ineligible to receive SSI benefits for any month during which he or she:
has an unsatisfied warrant for a crime that is a felony or, in jurisdictions that do not define crimes as felonies, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year regardless of the actual sentence imposed under the laws of the place from which the warrant is issued. The Social Security Administration defines this individual as a “fugitive felon”;
has an unsatisfied warrant for avoiding custody or confinement after conviction for a crime which is a felony or, in jurisdictions that do not define crimes as felonies, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year regardless of the actual sentence imposed under the laws of the place from which the person flees; or
has violated a condition of probation or parole imposed under Federal or State law.
The Social Security Administration will continue to pay an individual’s benefit if a court of competent jurisdiction has found the individual not guilty, dismissed the charges, vacated the warrant for arrest, or issued any similar exonerating order or taken similar exonerating action. The Social Security Administration also will continue to pay an individual’s benefit if the individual was erroneously implicated in connection with the criminal offense by reason of identity fraud.
Also, the Social Security Administration may continue to pay an individual’s benefit if the individual establishes that the offense underlying the warrant or imposition of the probation or parole (as well as the violation of probation or parole) was both nonviolent and not drug–related and there were mitigating circumstances for not satisfying the warrant.
SOMEONE WHO IS IN PRISON OR JAIL
If you are receiving SSI and you go to prison or jail, (this also includes correctional institutions, such as detention centers, halfway houses, boot camps, etc.) you are not eligible to receive SSI for any full calendar month you are incarcerated.
Please see our pamphlet, “What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security,” or view it online, at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10133.html, if you want more information about how being in prison or jail affects your SSI benefits.
In most instances, you can apply for SSI benefits and food stamps several months before you expect to be released from prison or jail. See the SSI spotlight on the Prerelease Procedure.
MY BROTHER IS IN PRISON AND WAS ON SSI FOR HIS DISIBLITY BEFORE HE WENT INTO PRISON…AFTER ONCE IN THER FOR A 25 YRS SENTENCE HE WAS TOLD BY SOCAIL SECURITY HE WILL NO LONGER GET HIS SSI UNTIL HE IS RELEASE AND ONCE RELEASED HE CAN THEN REAPPLY FOR HIS BENIFITS, BUT THERE IS NO GAURANTEE HE WILL BE APPROVED FOR HIS SSI PAYMENTS IT PROBALLY WILL HAVE TO GO AND GET AN ATTORNEY AND GO INFRONT OF A SOCAIL SECURITY JUDGE TO SEE IF HE CAN GET IT BACK…BUT THEY TOLD HIM THEY WOULD NOT GO BACK 7 YRS ,THEY WILL GO AS FAR AS THE DATE HE GETS OUT OF PRISON…….
YEA STEVE YOU TALK BIG BUT SCAN AND SHOW YOUR PROFF OF THE LETTER OR SHUT UP WE ARE ALL SICK OF HEARING BOUT YOUR SO CALLED LETTER PROVE IT
You know i found the letter but considering people want to be rude about it and the fact that i dont have a scanner im not going to post anything it says …how about you do what i did when getting discouraged about articles online…IF YOUR ON SSI THEN CALL THEM! I wasnt aware that it was going to turn into a big rant when i posted what i did or i would have thought twice im sorry but even being disabled i still have a life and dont have time to rush to the computer i would think other people would consider this thought but i guess im terribly mistaken. Anyways if you dont believe me then dont believe anybody else as well and CALL THEM YOUSELF
QEO
Thanks didn’t know. i just have really bad eyes and it makes it easier for me to read. went to google I still can’t makesince out of it. i am exhauted. up all night e-mailing the tday the same plus making all those calls to senators. Just tell me Been ot of work exactly 1 year 6 months in ca. Does this 2010 helpeople like us. No bodies out thier buying cars.
California annouced today that 8 counties including ours is up to 20%
Steve i don’t know what letter you are referring too, but I understand you and i opologize for any rude rmarks you ma have received.
I think we are all on the edge, that being no excue for hurting others feelings/ again sorry and thanks for your effort. Smetimes people just don’t want to believe. remember the old saying? : you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink,”
No Kathleen I wasnt refering to you im sorry…I was talking about a letter I recieved last month about this issue and just because I didnt hop on here right away when I found it and post what it says up here, and probably because I don’t own a scanner as well im being called a scam by one person, another person is calling me a liar based on an article they read. Im sorry but im not the type of person that would come on here spreading lies to get peoples hopes up…are you serious?
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Steve I ubderstand. I was opologizing for others who haven’t stepped up to the plate.
Steve I have a scanner but I am to stressed out to use it. Some people just don’t get it.
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I received an e mail yesterday about the stimulus checks for s.s.d and s.s.i. that the congress has approved the bill. Now, I was told that it was found on the internet on Tuesday March 9th, 2010 at 3:30p.m. I pray that this will help out with those of us that need the extra money. I want mine just like any of you do. Please don,t get mad at me all, I can do is pass along information to you. Again, I pray this is helpful to you.
[Update Mar 2010] Unfortunately the Democrat-controlled Senate has rejected a measure by a 50 to 47 vote that would have given seniors a one-time Social Security benefit
payment of $250 to make up for the lack of a cost of living increase The jobs bill, which contained the $250 SSI provision, was rejected despite Obama’s backing. The payments which would amount to $13 billion, where earmarked in the jobs bill – which was deemed too costly by lawmakers trying to allay their image of big spenders.
The badly needed Social Security payments would have helped 57 million seniors, a risky number to overlook considering the fall elections and how badly Democrats are viewed ever since the recession became a reality. Now that lawmakers have slapped seniors in the face the historical return is that this year marks the first time since 1975 that Social Security beneficiaries didn’t receive a cost of living increase. An extra payment may become a reality later this year if a new jobs bill is introduced to further extend unemployment benefits or the COLA provision in President Obama’s budget is approved.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00036
H.R. 4213
you need to pass the stimulus money for people thats on social security you took the rase from people thats on social security
mommalynn, im not trying to be rude but only people incarcerated may not recieve fedeeral or state benefits. JUST because a person has a felony conviction does not make them unable to collect benefits. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I HAVE A FELONY CONVICTION AND HAVE HAD ONE FOR 5 YEARS AND I RECIEVED MY BENEFITS AND MY STIMULUS IN 2009. every post i have seen of yours is putting people down and talking about things you have not personally experienced. and i expect to recieve my stimulus this year as well. for the same reasons i got one in 2009.
p.s. so please before you go yelling at people and putting your two cents in do your own research.
or you send out $250 to all ssa and ssi for march let me no by e-mail
i for one think if you can,t give people who get ssi,and ssd the stimus check,then give back the raises to us who are on ssi,ssd
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