With Veterans Day Falling on the Second Wednesday, Social Security Pays the 1st-to-10th Birth-Date Group a Day Early, on Tuesday, November 10
The Social Security Administration's Schedule of Social Security Benefit Payments 2026 (Publication No. 05-10031) assigns beneficiaries paid by birth date as follows: those born on the 1st through the 10th of the month are paid on the second Wednesday. In November 2026 the second Wednesday is November 11, Veterans Day, a federal holiday. Under the SSA's rule, when a scheduled Wednesday payment day is a federal holiday, payment is made on the preceding day that is not a federal holiday, so this group's November benefit is paid a day early, on Tuesday, November 10.
The month's other groups are unchanged: beneficiaries born on the 11th through the 20th are paid on the third Wednesday, November 18, and those born on the 21st through the 31st on the fourth Wednesday, November 25. People who received Social Security before May 1997, or who receive both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), are still paid Social Security on the 3rd and SSI on the 1st.
The agency asks beneficiaries who do not receive a payment on the expected date to allow three additional mailing days before contacting Social Security. (Source: Social Security Administration)
Source: Social Security Administration
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Photo: 图：位于马里兰州 Woodlawn 的美国社会保障局总部大楼，该局的发放日程决定了11月这一组社保金的提前到账。Wikimedia Commons 图片（CC BY-SA 3.0）。 / Photo: The Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland; the agency's payment schedule moves this November group a day early. Image via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
