[Akron-Talk] Fwd: [Ohio-Talk] From Brandon Smith, Public Affairs Specialist, [EXTERNAL] SSI benefits FW: Statement from Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul about COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments for Beneficiaries

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Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:27 PM
Subject: [Ohio-Talk] From Brandon Smith, Public Affairs Specialist,
[EXTERNAL] SSI benefits FW: Statement from Social Security Commissioner
Andrew Saul about COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments for Beneficiaries
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Hi Suzanne,

Here’s the press release:

Friday, April 3, 2020
For Immediate Release

Mark Hinkle, Acting Press Officer
 <mailto:press.office at ssa.gov> press.office at ssa.gov

SOCIAL SECURITY

Statement from Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul about COVID-19
Economic Impact Payments for Beneficiaries

 “I want to provide an update to people who receive benefits from the
Social Security Administration.

The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced on April 1 that Social
Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns
will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an economic
impact payment. The IRS will use the information on the Form SSA-1099 to
generate $1,200 economic impact payments to Social Security beneficiaries
who did not file tax returns in 2018 or 2019.

Treasury, not Social Security, will make automatic payments to Social
Security beneficiaries. Beneficiaries will receive these payments by direct
deposit or by paper check, just as they would normally receive their Social
Security benefits.

For updates from the IRS, visit  <https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus>
www.irs.gov/coronavirus.

Note for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Recipients:

We are working closely with Treasury to address outstanding questions about
our SSI recipients in an attempt to make the issuance of economic impact
payments as quick and efficient as possible. We realize people are
concerned, and the IRS will provide additional information at  <
https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus> www.irs.gov/coronavirus when available.
Please note that we will not consider economic impact payments as income
for SSI recipients, and the payments are excluded from resources for 12
months.

We will continue to update Social Security’s COVID-19 web page at  <
https://www.ssa.gov/coronavirus/> www.socialsecurity.gov/coronavirus/ as
further details become available.”

To get more Social Security news, follow the Press Office on Twitter  <
http://twitter.com/SSAPress> @SSAPress.

Brandon P. Smith

Public Affairs Specialist

Social Security Administration

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