The United States Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payment schedule includes a total of 4 different payments for beneficiaries. However, not all beneficiaries can have all payments on all days. Each payment day has set requirements.
For that reason, the next of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) checks, which includes the 2024 3.2% COLA, will not reach all Americans. It is mandatory to be eligible for this payment and to find out if we will have it available or not we just need to check the requirements.
Requirements for the new June SSDI payment
On June 12th will be the next of the payments that the Social Security Administration will send to Disability beneficiaries. This SSDI check has two requirements. And to meet these two requirements we only have to take into account the year of retirement and the date of birth.
So, the two mandatory requirements to get the June 12th SSDI are:
- Have a birthday between the 1st and 10th of any month.
- Have been receiving a retirement benefit since after May 1997.
And there are no extra requirements for the Social Security Administration to send us this June retirement payment. This will be the second of all the payments for the month, which means that before the end of June we will have another payment of up to $4,873 at most. The SSDI check can reach $3,822 after applying this year’s COLA.
Can I increase my SSDI benefit?
The truth is that once we start collecting Social Security payment there is nothing we can do to increase the size of our retirement checks. So if your benefit has a fixed amount, you’ll have to organize your finances around that amount.
However, each year you can increase your SSDI check because of the COLA, as we have already discussed. But at the end of the day the COLA does not depend on the citizens, it is the United States Government that announces it in order to combat inflation.
With this in mind, we can know that there is a possibility of reaching a new maximum amount each year, although it is also possible that the COLA will not increase Social Security checks. We should keep in mind that third quarter inflation is the information the government uses for the COLA. If there is not much inflation, it is possible that the COLA will not increase the checks.