{"id":26633,"date":"2025-06-30T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26633\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:16:17","slug":"big-changes-coming-to-july-social-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26633\/","title":{"rendered":"Big changes coming to July Social Security checks"},"content":{"rendered":"

There could be some big changes in your July Social Security check. That\u2019s because the government is collecting overpayments, meaning the administration paid you more benefits than you were due. <\/p>\n

Those affected should have received a notice\u00a0back in April.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The Social Security Administration it would begin withholding 50% of benefit payments to those who were overpaid 90 days from the date of the letter.\u00a0\u00a0That puts most collections beginning in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The 50% is a step back from the original announcement back in March.\u00a0The SSA announced back then that it would begin taking 100% of a person\u2019s Social Security check if they were found to have been overpaid.<\/p>\n

The revised policy<\/a>\u00a0applies to recipients of Title II benefits, which encompasses retirement, survivors and disability insurance. According to the agency, the 50% clawback for overpayments began April 25.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the SSA\u2019s inspector general, an internal watchdog,\u00a0discovered<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that 73,000 overpayments happened because of errors made by the SSA itself, not because the people receiving the benefits did anything wrong.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2024, in response to serious problems such as seniors and disabled people being pushed into financial hardship or homelessness, the Biden administration limited how much the SSA could take back from overpaid beneficiaries and capped the clawback rate at 10%.<\/p>\n

No more paper checks<\/p>\n

This is not the only upcoming Social Security change.\u00a0According to SSA<\/a>, nearly 500,000 Americans still receive their benefits via check.\u00a0Beginning Sept. 30<\/a>, all payments must be made electronically. This was part of an executive order signed back in March. This includes Social Security, SSI, SSDI, vendor payments and tax refunds.<\/p>\n

WEP and GPO payouts<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0nearly three million Americans<\/a>\u00a0saw a little extra in their recent checks thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act\u00a0signed in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Social Security Administration\u2019s website<\/a>, the WEP and GPO reduced or eliminated the benefits of more than 3.2 million people who receive a pension based on work not covered by Social Security, also known as a \u201cnon-covered pension,\u201d because they did not pay Social Security taxes. This new law increases benefits for certain types of workers.<\/p>\n

Beneficiaries should see retroactive benefits dating back to January 2024, with payments made via direct deposit by the end of March. The average payment is $6,710, the\u00a0SSA website<\/strong><\/a> stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There could be some big changes in your July Social Security check. That\u2019s because the government is collecting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,23273,454,23274,23271,10814,23275,255,80,10816,711,23272,1439,67,132,68,23276],"class_list":{"0":"post-26633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-distro","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-imds","12":"tag-news-update","13":"tag-newsbreak","14":"tag-oovvuu","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-smartnews","18":"tag-social-security","19":"tag-text-only","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-ve"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114771328112594659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}