In the month of May, traditional Social Security recipients will get their benefit payments a few days later than usual. You can blame the calendar.

The first round of Social Security direct deposits for May will be sent this week. Plus, those who receive SSI will get two ...

Those that receive Social Security benefits in addition to Supplemental Security Income will get three payments in May.

About 7.4 million Americans who may be disabled or have limited resources get monthly SSI benefit payments. About one-third of those SSI recipients also get a benefit from Social Security.

But how the payment schedule works means that some months, recipients may get twice the checks, and some months, they’ll get no checks at all. Here’s why. As it was in February, SSI ...