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Social Security payment dates for December 2025 detailed for beneficiaries
US Social Security retirement and SSI recipients will receive December payments per schedule; January SSI will come early on December 31 before 2.
The Social Security Administration will issue December 2025 retirement-benefit checks on a Wednesday schedule depending on recipients’ birth dates, December 10, 17 or 24, with the third-day-of-month batch for pre-1997 beneficiaries. SSI recipients get usual December 1 payment, and their January 2026 payment will arrive early on December 31. A 2.8% cost-of-living raise takes effect January 2026.