If you receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and you are looking at your November calendar wondering where your check went, here is the reassuring answer first: your November SSI payment is not missing, and it has not been cut. It arrives early — on Friday, October 30, 2026. That is why October holds two SSI deposits, and November holds none. It is a calendar shift, not a benefit change. Why October 30, Not November 1 SSI is normally paid on the 1st of the month. But November 1, 2026 is a Sunday. Under the Social Security Administration's rule, when a scheduled payment date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday, the payment is made on the business day before. So November's SSI moves back to Friday, October 30. The same rule explains the other date shift this month, for regular Social Security (see the table below): Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, is a federal holiday, so the payment for people born on the 1st–10th of the month moves one day earlier, to...