Social Secu­ri­ty update: May’s direct pay­ment worth $943 goes out in 27 days

There are less than four more weeks until the first of two Sup­ple­men­tal Secu­ri­ty Income pay­ments in May, worth up to $943 for indi­vid­ual fil­ers, goes out to mil­lions of ben­e­fi­cia­ries.
The first install­ment goes out in 27 days, on Wednes­day, May 1, to peo­ple with a seri­ous debil­i­tat­ing dis­abil­i­ty that results in a lim­it­ed income, accord­ing to the Social Secu­ri­ty Admin­is­tra­tion. 
A sec­ond month­ly install­ment will go out on May 30, and will replace June’s pay­ment because June 1 is on a week­end. 
The max­i­mum amount each fil­er can get depends on the cat­e­go­ry under which they applied for the pay­ment. Peo­ple who live with SSI recip­i­ents to pro­vide them with nec­es­sary care can qual­i­fy for a small­er month­ly dis­burse­ment as an “essen­tial per­son.” 
Indi­vid­ual fil­ers receive up to $943 each month, peo­ple who filed as a cou­ple can receive up to $1,415 a month, and essen­tial per­sons get up to $472 each month, accord­ing to the SSA. These amounts are an increase of 3.2% from 2023 due to infla­tion.
In order to qual­i­fy for the pay­ments, a per­son needs to be …