The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit payments will be distributed twice in August - on Friday, Aug 1 and on Friday, Aug. 29. The second August payment is scheduled because the first day of September lands on a holiday - Labor Day.

Social Security payments are scheduled to begin on the second Wednesday of every month and continue in waves on a weekly basis. The payment date is determined by the day of the month a retiree was born.

Social Security recipients will experience a complete transition from paper check disbursements to electronic payments, starting at the end of September. The Trump administration announced the update as part of a larger push to modernize the Social Security Administration (SSA) with fully digital payments.