Additionally, essential persons who provide necessary care to SSI recipients can receive up to $484. Notably, these amounts have increased by 2.5% due to inflation adjustments from the previous year.

The Social Security Administration sent the first SSI payments to recipients in January 1974, and payment rates have been adjusted in line with the cost of living since 1975, according to the SSA.

In 17 days, March Supplemental Security Income checks, worth up to $967 for individual filers, will be sent to eligible recipients. On Feb. 28, the Social Security Administration will issue SSI ...