{"id":50605,"date":"2025-11-24T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50605\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:20:25","slug":"will-thanksgiving-affect-social-security-payments-in-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50605\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Thanksgiving affect Social Security payments in November 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FFPXFSVBDVEDHA5SJUYVFKXVDE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 As the year winds down and the holiday season offers an affectionate hello, Social Security recipients might be curious if the most wonderful time of the year will impact their monthly payments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZQBBNNO3BJCUVNQD2XY4OCNABE\">The good news for November imbursements is that none of them land on Thanksgiving \u2014 meaning that they should arrive on time as usual. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VYIYS3TYYJF3FIPFLKCEPJZVDM\">The last recipients to get their November checks, as scheduled, are those who are born between the 21st and the 31st of their birth month. Those checks will be issued on Wednesday, Nov. 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4EHH5KJB5NCKLNNCMBO6BHXVEA\">This check is the second to last for 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TLHC6A2FVBGTHFPYSBRTFCVTOY\">It\u2019s also worth noting that there are no more paper checks coming in the mail to thousands of Social Security recipients after President Donald Trump issued a directive to axe paper checks from being a payment method for all government outfits, per his executive order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E7TTUET6PNFNBD43UCVXWOHPOY\">That means Americans who receive paper checks from places like the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Education, the IRS, or the Social Security Administration had to shift to electronic payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XBPESOGMY5GU5MXOKUWJSS4YHM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2025\/10\/social-security-goes-paperless-in-oct-2025-what-recipients-need-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The new policy went into effect at the end of September.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UGH3N4RP6RFRHIU4TN3LXANUJQ\">In 2026, a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment will come into effect \u2014 giving Social Security recipients just a bit more money in their monthly checks than in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AXZKLDKCVZH3HG7GB4Y4W757S4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/cola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the Social Security Administration<\/a>, this COLA will impact roughly 71 million Americans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O5GFV2X2QRD7PM25X3A6HPNPF4\">The 2026 COLA is higher than its 2025 counterpart, which came out to be 2.5%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E5IWPEZ6QBFFJL5EU7QVAMP53A\">Furthermore, the overall income that can be eligible for the Social Security tax is being raised to $184,500. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FOGKQRAZAJFMPOON66YWQZKRUY\">This news came later than anticipated due to the longest government shutdown in American history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 As the year winds down and the holiday season offers an affectionate hello, Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,1577,5565,134,136,135,28290],"class_list":{"0":"post-50605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-retirement","12":"tag-social-security","13":"tag-staten-island","14":"tag-staten-island-headlines","15":"tag-staten-island-news","16":"tag-united-states-social-security-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}