Social Security Recipients Receive Double December Payment

The second check includes the 2024 cost-of-living adjustment, marking a 3.2% increase.

About 1 in 10 Social Security recipients will receive a double December payment, with their second monthly check arriving on December 29 due to a quirk in the system for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
The 2024 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is set for a 3.2% increase, marking the smallest increase in three years.
The average SSI check will rise to $943 per month in 2024, up from $914 per month in 2023, according to the Social Security Administration.
The benefits hike for the nation's 7.5 million SSI recipients will begin on December 29, 2023.
Retirees born between the 1st and 10th of a month will receive payments on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Those born after the 11th of the month will receive their payments in one of the two later disbursements.