These representatives receive the benefit checks and pay the beneficiaries' living expenses.

It generally takes two to three weeks after you file your claim to receive your first benefit check.

The automatic increase will show up in the benefit checks of Dec. 31.

To make up for the benefit check he had lost, he would have to work 40 hours a week at the minimum wage.

You're going to spend that benefit check, but it doesn't count as income.

He said that most notch babies would get smaller benefit checks, on the average, than people born in any other year of this century.

The adjustment will increase the average benefit check by $25, to $566 a month, the Social Security Administration said today.

In addition to free medical care, many veterans receive monthly benefit checks.

To avoid future check days, he has applied to have benefit checks deposited directly into his bank account.

Earlier this year, one more task got added to the list when the post office stopped cashing federal benefit checks.