United States benefit calendar

Your Social Security Payment Dates

Enter the day of the month you were born. See when the payment is sent from November 2026 through December 2027. Nothing is saved.

Only the day, not the month or year. Paid on someone else’s record? Use that person’s birth day.

How the schedule works

1st – 10th
Second Wednesday of the month
11th – 20th
Third Wednesday of the month
21st – 31st
Fourth Wednesday of the month
Before May 1997, or also SSI
The 3rd of the month

If the payment day is a weekend or a federal holiday, it comes the business day before. In this list, that happens on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, for birthdays on the 1st through the 10th, because Wednesday, November 11 is Veterans Day.