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Social Security

If you are currently receiving Social Security benefits, those benefits will not stop during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.See the Social Security Administration’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage for more details.

To answer the question of whether social security recipients are entitled to the federal stimulus package, read this article from AARP

Due to the pandemic, however, Social Security offices are not accepting visitors.

The Social Security Administration is also warning that scammers are may try to trick people into thinking that the pandemic stops their social security payments. That is NOT true. Read this statement from the Office of the Inspector General.