{"id":67,"date":"2026-08-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:00:00","slug":"u-s-social-security-payments-in-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/2026\/08\/u-s-social-security-payments-in-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Social Security Payments in August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sunil-patel-1\/social-security-payments-of-up-to-5181-to-arrive-this-week-what-to-know-remotion-videos-c1ce\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>On August 3, payments went to supplemental income recipients who also collect Social Security and to people who started claiming benefits before May 1997.<br \/>\nRemaining payments are scheduled for August 12, 19, and 26, based on whether a beneficiary\u2019s birthday falls in the first, middle, or final third.<br \/>\nMissing a scheduled payment? Beneficiaries were advised to wait three working days before contacting the agency, since benefits are issued on a staggered monthly schedule.<br \/>\nRetirement benefits depend on earnings history and claiming age. Workers usually needed 40 credits, generally earned over ~10 yr, to qualify for retirement benefits.<br \/>\nEarly forecasts suggested the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment could top this year\u2019s increase, with one advocacy group projecting ~4% as inflation stayed elevated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 3, payments went to supplemental income recipients who also collect Social Security and to people who started claiming benefits before May 1997. Remaining payments are scheduled for August 12, 19, and 26, based on whether a beneficiary\u2019s birthday falls in the first, middle, or final third. Missing a scheduled payment? Beneficiaries were advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsunilpatel.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}