May 13 social security check: Social security payments coming on this Wednesday? All you may want to know

May 13 social security check: Beneficiaries are reportedly set to receive social security benefits payments this week. Generally, social security benefits are paid on Wednesdays, according to a report.

This will be first tranche of social security payments for the month of May. Recipients born between the 1st and 10th of any month are expected to receive their monthly Social Security benefits according to the scheduled payment cycle, as per USA Today report.

More than 75 million Americans receiving Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits would see their monthly payments rise 2.8 per cent in 2026, accelerating from the prior year's increase for the first time in three years, Reuters reported in last October.


The Social Security Administration announced the annual cost-of-living adjustment to benefits, less than an hour after the Bureau of Labor Statistics published the Consumer Price Index for September, which had been delayed by more than a week by the ongoing federal government shutdown.

The agency bases the annual increase, closely watched by retirees and others on benefits, on the average of the annual increase in the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, also known as the CPI-W index. That index rose 2.9 per cent in September and for the three months of July, August and September averaged about 2.7 per cent.

The increase takes effect in January for 71 million Social Security recipients and on December 31, 2025 for nearly 7.5 million SSI beneficiaries. Some recipients receive both Social Security and SSI benefits.

It was the first time the annual increase was larger than the prior year since 2023, when recipients received an 8.7 per cent increase - the largest since 1981 - after a 5.9 per cent increase in the prior year.

For 2025, the increase was 2.5 per cent. Inflation, which surged to the highest level in four decades as the economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, moderated over 2023 and 2024, resulting in a deceleration in benefits growth. Inflation, though, has edged up over the course of this year. The more widely watched main CPI index rose 3.0 per cent in September, up from 2.9 per cent in August, BLS said.