On Valentine’s Day 2025, thousands of United States citizens will be able to count on Social Security benefits to help them organize any plans they may have in mind. Of course, they must meet the requirements to qualify for payment. Not all United States citizens who are eligible for benefits will be able to collect their check the very next day.
Payment of this benefit will be sent before Valentine’s Day, but that does not mean that the beneficiaries of this Social Security payment will have access to the check on that same day. Even retirees in this group may not receive the money on that specific day, as the chosen collection method must also be taken into account.
Who gets Social Security before Valentine’s Day?
In order to receive payment before Valentine’s Day, we will have to meet two requirements. These requirements are related to the beneficiary’s year of retirement and also to the day of birth. Both requirements are mandatory and it is not possible to receive a benefit on this day in February if we do not meet them.
Best of all, it is not necessary to have a Social Security check of any specific type. That is, we can have the payment whether we have retirement from the age of 62 or a disability retirement.
The two requirements to be part of this group are to have a payment since after May 1997, as well as to have a birthday between the 1st and 10th of any month. Only in this way will we belong to Retiree Group 2 and be able to receive the benefit on February 12th, just before Valentine’s Day.
How to get Social Security payment faster?
In addition to all this, we must also bear in mind that the method of collection influences the date on which we can have the money available. If we take this into account, we can activate Direct Deposit as our method of collection so that we can have our Social Security before Valentine’s Day.
If we don’t have this collection method activated, we won’t be able to receive the payment before that day, as it will take around 3 days to appear in the checking account. Remember that the amount you receive does not influence the day of payment, nor does it influence the time it takes to reach your checking account.
Americans who are not in this group of retirees will not be able to receive payment on this day, but they will get their Social Security check in the weeks after February. The biggest advantage of having your retirement accepted is that you can collect every month without any problems, with few exceptions.
