President Obama has recently announced that there will be a one-time $250 stimulus check in 2010 to recipients of Social Security. This bonus check is part of of his ongoing effort to stimulate the economy out of recession. Please note that Congress has yet to approve this bill.
[Edit – This check was supposed to have been paid out in the first quarter of 2010. Given that the first quarter just ended and there is no check it looks like this issue is dead and there will be no $250 stimulus check in 2010.]
Who is eligible for the $250 stimulus check in 2010?
Anyone who is currently receiving Social Security (SS) payments will be eligible for the $250 check. There are also some other groups who will receive this check including SSI and disabled veterans.
[update – find out about the new $250 stimulus check in 2010 for SSI recipients]
Will Social Security Payments Get Paid If US Defaults On Its Debt?
When will the $250 checks be paid out?
It is not known at this time when the payments will be made but it is likely that they will be paid in the first quarter of 2010 (ie before the end of March).
Is there any income limit for the $250 payment?
No, it doesn’t matter if you have other income or if you are working or not. It doesn’t matter how much income you make – you will still get the check.
How much will this cost the government?
According to White house officials, the cost of all the stimulus checks will be $13 billion. A large amount of money but don’t forget that the stimulus package for 2009 was almost $800 billion.
Why is the government doing this?
The government is giving out this money in order to try to stimulate the economy. Because of problems in the financial markets and housing markets over the last 2 years, there has been a slowdown in economic activity in America and many job losses. By putting extra money into the economy it is hoped that the decline of the economy can be slowed down or even reversed.
Will there be a Social Security raise this year?
No, in fact part of the reason the $250 bonus check was created was to make up for the fact that there is no cost of living raise in Social Security payments this year.
Will it be a check or electronic payment?
The $250 should be given to you in the same format you currently receive your regular Social Security payment. If you get your SS payment by check then the $250 will also be by check. If you get your SS payment deposited in to your bank account then the $250 will also be deposited into your bank account.
More information on Social Security
Social Security provides the average retiree with a monthly check of about $1,150. The program provides 40 percent of all income received by elderly people in the United States; one in five older married couples and two in five older single people rely on it for at least 90 percent of their income.
Will there be a stimulus check in 2011?
Social Security Stimulus Check 2010 – FAQ
$250 stimulus check – should it be more?
Will there be a $250 stimulus check in 2011 for Social Security Recipients?
Will there be a $250 stimulus check in 2011 for SSI Recipients?
567 replies on “$250 stimulus check in 2010 for Social Security Recipients”
Hey Dan:
I agree with you, lets rally together those 57 million who missed out on the Social Security one time $250.00 check. And lets get those 57 million to change there votes, as the one they voted for turned his back on them, a task done quite well in politics. There will never be a more perfect time to let them know in Washington that the government “is for the people, by the people.” Lets give them a dose of their own medicine, if we vote for someone else, what do we really, and I mean really have to lose now.
Or we could flood their offices with emails and phone calls and see what excuses they can come up with. Someone has to stand and be noticed, we as people need that little bit of funding! Now in politics people can really see and feel the loyalties the Democrats have showed us. Spring is here, and I serious think its time to do some spring cleaning. A fresh look in politics is a needed badly and if we don’t push the envelop in the other direction we will lose again and again.
I maintained a residence in Florida for 22 years and I love the state, I found one way to help myself was to migrate to a less expensive place to dwell. Oh, it was nice…but I find when I need something, I must do for myself….there were no websites at that time for earning funds. I agree with all the bloggers who want to change the system …on the next election day. I was never a guy in Florida, simply a Sunshine state resident. Case closed.
from clarcie julia you dont understand do you? iwas not saying that you are a guy, iam from fla. i have been here 60 yrs, my whole life the folks here in fla. just use that saying sometimes. its not meant to be disrespectful. it seems that you just take things the wrong way.
Does this mean we are friends. I know what I read, I think about what I read. I think about ALL seniors, vets, disabled and the less fortunate in our country. I believe in the cause….give to each what is deserved and no more stress or strife than one can endure. So I’m wise enough to leave this entire site, never to post again. gracefully, I might add!
Dear Julia:
Stop the whining, there was a misunderstanding and deal with it. Human beings make mistakes, its all part of life, yours and mine, and people here as well. If you can’t get over the misunderstanding here, than “yes” move on and good luck in your prefect world then……..CYA !
Thanks Tom; I’m pnly saying that elected offifials, especially the ones we voted for, are expected to live up to representing our interests. If the culprits who voted against our interests, whether they be Democratic or Republican or Independent, then we have an obligation to vote them out and get men and women supporiting our interests. It isn”t the matter of $250, althought manyof our seniors depend on their SS checks day today, but it is the principal that these representatives want to appear as fiscally prudent and yet were not shy about voting themselvesa raise in pay for this fiscal year. They should pay the price for that indiscretion and the price is being voted out of office.
still looking for stimulus
Hey Dave;
Keep looking, maybe you should try to look in your Congressman’s pocket.
Carol
Everyone should send an email to them and let them know how we really feel. Also let them know that come November, the vote could swing in the other direction. I already sent a few myself before……..
Let them all know that the 57 million people they screwed, will be more than happy to show their locality too.
Everyone call,email and write to the elected officals; we need a better system to fix things. Inflation is negative yet eletricity went up 17.5%! I am down to bare basics almost the only others I can cut is phone and internet.I take online courses and work from home so I need both.
David??I guess you still don’t believe this???? You better believe it, unless looking for your $250.00 just gives you something to do?
[Update Mar 2010] Unfortunately the Democrat-controlled Senate has rejected a measure by a 50 to 47 vote that would have given seniors a one-time Social Security benefit
payment of $250 to make up for the lack of a cost of living increase The jobs bill, which contained the $250 SSI provision, was rejected despite Obama?s backing. The payments which would amount to $13 billion, where earmarked in the jobs bill ? which was deemed too costly by lawmakers trying to allay their image of big spenders.
The badly needed Social Security payments would have helped 57 million seniors, a risky number to overlook considering the fall elections and how badly Democrats are viewed ever since the recession became a reality. Now that lawmakers have slapped seniors in the face the historical return is that this year marks the first time since 1975 that Social Security beneficiaries didn?t receive a cost of living increase. An extra payment may become a reality later this year if a new jobs bill is introduced to further extend unemployment benefits or the COLA provision in President Obama?s budget is approved.
For all the one that denide the stimulus checks for the ones on disabilty checks i hope you have prayed and told god why you did not pass the checks because we should have been able to get the checks and now we have to struggle thanks for nothing you all should not be able to have any say and i will pray that you are happy with your self.
I am a senior, 67 years old and live in subsidized elderly housing. Most of the people I have gotten acquainted with live on nothing but a small social security check. Only a few, like myself, may have a small pension from years of hard work. I think it’s a sin for the seniors to be denied the $250 stimulus check. $250 may not be a fortune but for seniors who have nothing for recreation and entertainment and can’t even afford to pay for the deductible and co-pays on their medicare insurance, it would be a God-send and a joy. Why? It might just be a little something extra for a nice meal out, a new outfit or just possibly to catch up on some overdue bills.
By the time anyone listens to us, most of these Non-generous politicians will be retiring and getting their “healthy” retirement checks…so who cares if SSI recipients get a little extra…I like the $250 food stamp idea though…but that will flush too! Like many of you I am disillusioned by our government and the folks we put in office…how soon they forget. Promises, promises…But hey, go ahead and bail out another big financial institutute, rob our social security benefits, borrow from another foreign country…like they care, cut the doctors off that still have the heart to keep helping their Medicare patients (God love them). This is America, land of the free and forgotten!
hi granniegoo, hope things are going okay for you today. i tottaly agree with you. it seems that the big wheels dont give a darn about us. sure wish there was away to personally know some of the people that we vote in, that would be good because we mite just vote for someone else had we known that they were so uncareing. the main thing is most people that run for office these days have never been without they dont know what it is like to struggle. when we got the letter about us not getting a cost of living raise this year in 2010 and 2011 that really got to me to. them saying that the cost of living didnt go up,well we all know thats a big lie .
there will not be a stimulus checkfor know one there say one thing and do another thing just to get hour hopes up that just make’s me sick will i don’t want to vote anymore.
I would to add my 2 cents here, what is happening to this free government we are supposed to have. they have taken away our health benefits, now they are trying to make us poor, threr don’t any of them have any idea about what we all go thru everyday trying to make ends meet isn’t easy. they say when your left palm itches that you are going to get some money,well mine has been itching like crazy this whole week. so where’s the money coming from I don’t have any rich relatives. this is all I have to say about this matter. we have the wrong people running the country. Our forefathers who set up this government werenot rich either.
i dont know if we are getting one but if not shame on the white house for even saying that shame on them all its not fair that we are at the end of the ballot i hope they are proud of themselves we need that little extra they have what they want in life and the heck with us little people
Everyone:
This is an easy thing to do, all the Democrats that voted down the Stimulus check just send them an email with these words;
NO STIMULUS CHECK – NO VOTE
And this just may get their attention, but include in that email, that 57 million votes is devastating with their jobs on the line. This just may let them know “we are sick of being screwed”
TEXAS SENIORS, WHETHER YOU ARE DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS OR INDEPENDENTS, IF YOU ARE NOT INDIVIDUALLY WEALTHY AND NEED THE $250 STIMULUS FOR HELP. ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVE WHY THEY DIDN’T DENY THEMSELVES A RAISE THIS YEAR TO SHOW THEIR CONCERN FOR BEING FISCALLY PRUDENT. LET THEM KNOW YOU WILL REMEMBER THEIR VOTE AGAINST US WHEN OUR TIME COMES TO VOTE FOR THEM. i LET CONGRESSMAN BARTON AND SENATORS CRONYN AND HUTCHISON KNOW HOW I FELT. THEY ONLY UNDERSTAND VOTES NOT APPALS.
Well I know there is a lot of folks that are not happy about the congress not passing the $250 stimulus checks and we should be heard we the people of the united states of america will not take your lies no more we want new people in office that will help all of us and I am a voter and nobody that is in the congress now will be getting my vote you all are liers so we hope the while we are going from day to day trying to make sure thing like our lights and rent and so on not to get cut off that all of you injoy living on what we should be and that is the money we should have gotten not you.
SENIORS! ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IS THE NEXT STEP THAT YOU WILL REPEAL SOCIAL SECURITY ALTOGETHER. AND OH, WHT ABOUT MEDICARE WHY NOT LET THAT EXPIRE. YOU ARE SO FOCUSED ON FISCIAL SOUNDNESS WHEN WILL YOU REDUCE YOUR SALARIES. WE NEED TO OVER HALL THE SENAT AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ; ELECT PEOPLE WHOSE CONCERNS A RE WE TH PEOPLE. BLANCH LINCOLN ARE YOU HAPPY THAT YOU VOTED NO FOR ON $250 WHICH MANY SENIOUR IN ARKANSAS SORELY NEED .
dianne. you are so right they do have what they need plus;–sure hope that they are proud of what they have done to all that needed that extra $250.00 that we all could haae used the stimulus check to buy things that we need. we cant afford to buy extras with the little checks that we get for disability, vet, social security ,but they dont care about the ones that voted to get them in office.my self i hope that they all get the boot . and no one votes them in again, i know that i wont vote for them.
WELL SENIORS, DON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN IN BELEIVING THAT BECAUSE YOUR SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE IS EITHR DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN OR INDEPENDENT THAT THEY’RE INTERESTED IN YOU; THEY DON’T CARE WHETHER YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR REN, DENTURES OR FOOD. VOTE THEIR BUTTS OUT OF OFFICE . REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER ALOT OF THEM ARE COMING UP FOR ELECTION OR REELECTION.
I am so sick of the lies,
and the crooks in goverment
who don’t give a damn about
the needy and elderly.
I just recieved notice that
my rent is going up by
thirty five dollars.
Does the goverment care????
Hell no they don’t….
I am so disgusted!!!!!
I so wanted to believe that
we were finally on the right
track, but, once again, we
were lied to…..
I HOPE THEY ALL ENJOY THEIR
STEAK AND LOBSTER DINNERS,
WHILE IT IS THE TAX PAYERS WHO
ARE PROVIDING FOR THEM…
“WHETHER THE TAX PAYERS LIKE IT OR NOT”
THEY KEEP TAKING AND TAKNG FROM US.
WHILE THEY DON’T GIVE A CRAP
ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE.
I WONDER IF THEY BELIEVE IN KARMA
THEN AGAIN, THEY PROBABLY THINK
THAT KARMA DOES NOT APPLY TO THEM…
PISSED OFF IN ILLINOIS
AS FOR ME….WELL MY DAYS
OF VOTING ARE OVER!!!!!
Hey Connie:
Welcome to the real world of the poor and forgotten. Like I said earlier send your Senators an email with this message..NO CHECK NO VOTE!
Send that message a few times and let know we are sick and tired of all the BS. When election times comes around that vote from you will not be there, just like our check. Dan was right….no matter what side they are on….we just don’t count because we do not contribute to their fund raisers, honestly who could afford to anyway…..I can’t and I won’t due to the fact that I am still waiting for the proof that my vote does count in the first place. Remember the 200 election with Bush, if they can cover up an assignation, a election would be a walk in the park. Think back, Bush put us in this mess in the first place…….he was and still is such a smuck!
THE WORST THING TO DO IS NOT VOTE; THE ONLY WAY WE CAN MAKE OUR DISTASTE KNOWN IS TO VOTE THE INCUMBENTS OUT OR AT LEAST THE ONES WHO HAVE SHOWN THEY DON’T GIVE A AMN ABOUT US. IM VOTING ALL INCUMBENTS OUT TO GIVE FRESH BLOOD A CHANCE FOR A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME.
I thank you all who have responded
to my comment.
I think when it comes to voting
we hope and pray that finally
someone has a heart…
But, ofcourse they say what you
and I want to hear.
It’s at the point where we vote
for the less of two evils.
I din’t like Bush at all
But, Hey, the (ONE) good thing
about him is that we got a raise
every year that he was in office.
We so want to believe in our
goverment, but how can we ever
have any trust in them, when
time after time they lied to us….
We all have to listen to our
own heart, and do what we feel
is right for ourown self…
As for me, Well, I lost faith
in all of those crooks and liars…
Thanks again for your response…
Have a great day, or at last try to.
CONGRESS NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO PEOPLE WHO NEEDED THAT $250 , AND NEED TO REGRET WHAT THEY HAVE DONE . ALL THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IS KEEP THEIR POCKETS FULL , WHILE OTHERS SUFFER FOR THEIR IGNORANCE , AND STUPIDITY. THINK ABOUT THE B.S. PRESIDENT BUSH PUT US THROUGH ….., AND HOW HE SOLD OUT AMERICA . IF THEY LIKE TO DANCE WITH THE DEVIL —, LET THEM GO . THEY NEED TO BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE WITH THEIR LIES .
I agree Jay…Yes indeed,
One day they will have to face
our Maker is right….
That will be the one time
they cannot play their con game…
Shame on them…They have no heart!!!
Ralph, I can understand
the hurt and anger that you feel..
I am right there with you…
As long as they can line their own pockets, the rest of us can all
go to hell as far as they are concerned…
Yes, they will see who has the
upper hand, when election time arrives.
BRAVO!!!!!
Hey Dan:
When I said “no check- no vote” I meant was this very clearly..DO NOT VOTE FOR THE ONES WHO VOTED “NAY” ON THE STIMULUS CHECK.
Those fools need not bother being in office anymore, they shown us their true colors (yellow stripe down the center of their backs.)
As far as the other smucks in Washington they can kiss my ass! They never cared about us or the children in the world, you can every time the budget comes around. The children,old, retired, disabled and vets get the cuts first. Of course we are the ones who made this country, support this country and beleive in this country. All those smucks believe in is their pockets and the ones who contribute to their election funds. Money is KING! The way are going now I am very surprsed there is not a new revolution on the up rise soon, due to all the wrong doing and hanky panky going on among ALL THE POLITICIANS in this country we all help build and support.
To all those still thinking there is a check on its way, wake up and smell the coffee or pay attention. It is not coming this year or next year, so be prepared. If you get evicted or can not afford your surroundings, you can always go to your congrssman and camp out on their lawn. For they are the ones who are suppose to support us as we supported them come election time. So get use to scraping together your pennies and tightening your belt, its a new way of life we live now. Only the strongest survive!
all you are all so right, they just built us all up to let us down they should have to live as we do from day to day struggling .i am disabled cant work i am still trying to get work on line but havent had any luck yet, every one allways wants to charge to much to get started. i take a lot of meds ,cant motivate to work out side the home.but i want to try to make some money to help myself. trying to depend on those big wheels just dont work.
yes that is right i have said that, and i do mean it those congressmen and senitors have done us wrong and we need to get the flusteration out we need as they need they get but we dont
HEY JAY Knock it off with the Catholics are not CRISTIANS! And keep religion out of politics. If anyone here is a true christian then you must know the bible. There’s a place in the bible where Jesus states something about give Ceasar what is Ceasers and give unto God what is God’s, something to that effect,
It’s religion that has through out time that more blood has run than any for other reason. Humans are Humans and that’s it. And what ever you call yourself, if there is a god, it isn’t going to matter to him or her what organization you belong to.
Religion is a filled with fanatics. And this page is beginning to sound like a Holy Rollers site. God is not going to give you or me a stimulus check. Buy the way where were all of you when georgie boy strated a pre=emptive war, violated internal law, lied to the world and Banked rupted this country. Praying? If so you should have had your eyes and
ears open to what was going on while all the red,orange and yellow scare tactics were going on to keep people scurring around like mice in maze? We’re in this mess because not enough people paid enough attention to the disgusting antics that took place for eight years. Well we who were listening and screaming bloody murder at the lies are having to suffer because not enough spoke out.
At least the priest from a Parish in my town walked in marches against the Bush policy’s and put his hands out to be arrested. I don’t practice in any organized religious groups as I have seen to many so called cristians. talk the talk, but not walk the walk.
So now that were in this disaster we let happen let’s try to keep god out of it. I am sure if there is a god he has much more important matters to deal with then us getting a check. Americans are spoiled rotten Brats.
Everyone here should have to go and live ayear in a third world country and see the real pain that exist in this world we have created.
And another thing Obama is not a Muslem and he did not create this mess. Gos does anyone here every open a book and read or a newspaper? Try a History book, you might find that this all has happened before.
Now that I’ve got my two cents in I’ll leave you all to this revival meeting.
all i know guys is i read today 2 people reviews on another site that claims they did allready get there $ 250 stimulas checks, if so why havent we got ours yet? and in my local paper they had a artical claiming we would get them in april a few days ago
If we are not getting a stimulus check then we need a raise in the cola! They tell us inflation is negative while electric companies are trying to raise rates AGAIN! I AM SICK OF BUSINESSES AND THE GOVERNMENT! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THEM! What do we do?
SENIORS; I HAVEN’T HEARD ANY OF THE CABLE NEWS STATIONS (CNN, MSNBC, FOX ETC.) MENTION THAT CONGRESS VOTED DOWN THE $250 PAYMENT TO US TO OFFSET THE LACK OF AN INFLATION ADJUSTMENT ON UJR SOCIAL SECURITY. I URGE ALL OF US TO WIRE EMAILS TO THE CABLE NEWS STATIONS TO HEADLINE THIS. I HAVE WRITTEN TO ALL CHANNELS AND NOT RECEIVED ANY RESPONSE.
Daniel
I heard it on FoxNews about a month ago…the same time the article came out on the internet. The article was listed under News on Yahoo, and you can look it up on bills passed and not passed on several government websites. I’m not offended in any way, but I just want you to know that I wouldn’t have posted something on here that I didn’t do my homework on….I know that if I can find this info and read it on the internet, than any of you can too…because I am not that swift with the computer….Now that I found and read and posted what I did, I, personally, feel relieved that I am no longer sitting and wondering about a check. It is much less stressful, regardless of what the outcome is, to know the truth! Have a great day all…it is still a great day to be alive, check or no check!
I recieved the “stimulus” payment for the last two years. I’m sure it was very helpful and I spent it on a true Basic need not any Lux item or trip. May we each do our part to better ourselves and to help others as well not just financially. We’ll get what we need-Hopefully. Amen to that.
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WE NEED MORE HOLY GHOST FIRE FILLED CHRISTIANS IN THE GOVERNMENT GOD”S PEOPLE DONT LIE THE DEVILS PEOPLE DO they were liars from the beginning look back in “Hoover’s Days” he starved some of our people who couldn’t afford to buy food. What can we do? just pray to our Heavenly Father that they will wise up before it’s to late Thank you for letting me express my feelings.
If America would stop sending money to Isreal and other foreign countries prehaps we could have afforded the stimulus.
Where is the help for Seniors. Health Care reform did nothing to help my situation now.
Health Insurance premiums increased. Drug premiums increased. Co-pays increased. S.S. check decreased amount. Can’t understand why this country is so generous in helping other countries but so reticent in helping the needy in our county. Charity starts at home.
WE RECEIVED NO COLA THIS YEAR….YET EVERYTHING WENT UP, I.,E, FOOD, GAS, HEALTH INSURANCE, ETC. LET THE “POWERS” WHO MADE THIS NO 2010 COLA DECISION (AND MAYBE NONE IN NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS) TRY TO LIVE ON SOCIAL SECURITY WHEN THEY RETIRE.
I had to get another part time job that I work from home. It only pays maybe $50 a month but it is something. It is horrible that we did not get a cola, yet we are punished if we make too much money by having our benefits decrease.
Many employers don’t want to hire people on disablity because we can’t work full time hours and we can’t make too much money.
If we are not going to get a $250 stimulus check let us make up to $600 more in income without our benefits decreasing. People who make minium wage do not get a pay cut if they work too many hours. The system is absurd!
AGAIN THIS CONGRESS IS IGNORING THE NEEDS OF THEMOST VULNERABLE. PLEASE BEGIN TO PUT PRESSURE ON CONGRES TO LET THEM KNOW THEY CANNOT SLIGHT 57MILLION AMERICANS WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES AT THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER.
Just finished reading all the comments on the 2010 stimulus check. My personal opinion is, no matter whether we do or do not get the $250, it is time to vote every incumbent out of office. They have all done too much to hurt the retired and needy and I don’t see any evidence of any changes forthcoming. Let’s go for new blood and let’s set restrictions on time and benefits for all future politicians. It is time they learned to live as we have to.
i am 74 and each year i look forward to my raise as i need it. so does a lot of seniors. we are going backward instead of forward. there are many seniors in congress why would they do this to us shame on them shame shame shame glenda
hi glenda,my name is clarcie brown, i understand how you feel i just hope that they will reconsider this issue on the stimulus check and change their dicision to go in our favor. we all know that the cost of living did go up. for them to send a letter saying that the reason we didnt get our cost of living raises was because it didnt go up was very wrong,they are a bunch of liers. hope every thing works out for all of us . wish the best of luck to you– cb.