US federal benefit-payment calendar, daily (2025-2027)
Daily national panel of US federal benefit-payment days, 2025-01-01 to 2027-12-31 (1,095 rows): five income streams resolved to exact deposit days from their published rules (SSA Wednesday birth-date cohorts with holiday shifts; SSI and VA disability on the 1st with preceding-business-day shifts; DFAS military paydays on the 1st and 15th; SSA legacy 3rd-day payments), federal holidays per 5 U.S.C. 6103, a documented 0-100 benefit-pressure index, days-since/to nearest benefit day, and a month-start income-cluster flag. Payment dates are facts from US federal agencies (public domain) -> commercial_use=yes. Complements the federal-payroll cycle in us_ca_holiday_payday_calendar. Join on ISO date to orders, renewals, or collections for income-timing demand features.
- Rows
- 1,095
- Columns
- 16
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Calendar date, ISO format. |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code (USA, national). |
| is_federal_holiday | integer | 1 when the date is an observed federal holiday (5 U.S.C. 6103 + OPM shifts). |
| holiday_name | string | Observed federal holiday name, else empty. |
| ssa_cohort | integer | SSA Wednesday cohort paid this date: 1 = 2nd Wednesday (birth 1st-10th), 2 = 3rd Wednesday (11th-20th), 3 = 4th Wednesday (21st-31st); 0 = no SSA Wednesday payment. |
| is_ssa_payment_day | integer | 1 when any SSA Wednesday cohort is paid. |
| is_ssi_payment_day | integer | 1 on the SSI payment day (1st, or the preceding business day). |
| is_va_payment_day | integer | 1 on the VA disability payment day (1st, or the preceding business day). |
| is_military_payday | integer | 1 on a DFAS military payday (1st/15th, or the preceding business day). |
| is_ssa_legacy_payment_day | integer | 1 on the SSA legacy payment day (3rd, or the preceding business day). |
| n_benefit_streams | integer | Count of distinct streams paying (0-5). |
| benefit_pressure_index | integer | 0-100 dataset-internal index = min(100, 30*ssa + 22*ssi + 18*va + 16*military + 14*legacy); weights reflect approximate recipient-population ordering, not measured counts. |
| days_since_last_benefit_day | integer | Days since the most recent date any stream paid (0 = today). |
| days_to_next_benefit_day | integer | Days until the next date any stream pays (0 = today). |
| is_month_start_income_cluster | integer | 1 when a stream pays on the 1st-3rd of the month. |
| row_hash | string | md5(date|ssa_cohort|ssi|va|military|legacy)[:16]. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | country_code | is_federal_holiday | holiday_name | ssa_cohort | is_ssa_payment_day | is_ssi_payment_day | is_va_payment_day | is_military_payday | is_ssa_legacy_payment_day | n_benefit_streams | benefit_pressure_index | days_since_last_benefit_day | days_to_next_benefit_day | is_month_start_income_cluster | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-01 | USA | 1 | New Year's Day | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6b193abb72f7fd84 |
| 2025-01-02 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | e110a74d8ef1da8e |
| 2025-01-03 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8ffe981dd1999a1d |
| 2025-01-04 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | c99f5f0c270e3c8c |
| 2025-01-05 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | c86e50cffa3f0069 |
| 2025-01-06 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 71ee67d5ad911bf9 |
| 2025-01-07 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5578ef61c00433cc |
| 2025-01-08 | USA | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f5b67b7d87abf9af |
| 2025-01-09 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 57184af6a3716541 |
| 2025-01-10 | USA | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | d8e261d689facf4e |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T213402Z-8a7e3db28875
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 1,095
- Columns
- 16
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datevarchar | 0% | 1,208 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| is_federal_holidaybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| holiday_namevarchar | 0% | 13 | — |
|
| ssa_cohortbigint | 0% | 4 | 0 → 3median 0 | |
| is_ssa_payment_daybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_ssi_payment_daybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_va_payment_daybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_military_paydaybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_ssa_legacy_payment_daybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| n_benefit_streamsbigint | 0% | 5 | 0 → 4median 0 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| benefit_pressure_indexbigint | 0% | 7 | 0 → 70median 0 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| days_since_last_benefit_daybigint | 0% | 14 | 0 → 12median 3 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| days_to_next_benefit_daybigint | 0% | 14 | 0 → 12median 3 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| is_month_start_income_clusterbigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 1,145 | — |
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1,095 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_benefit_payment_intel/us_benefit_payment_calendar_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_benefit_payment_intel/us_benefit_payment_calendar_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_benefit_payment_intel/us_benefit_payment_calendar_daily
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US federal benefit-payment calendar (SSA / SSI / VA / DFAS). (2026). US federal benefit-payment calendar, daily (2025-2027) [Data set, snapshot 20261001T213402Z-8a7e3db28875, sha256 8a7e3db28875]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/us_benefit_payment_intel/us_benefit_payment_calendar_daily?snapshot=20261001T213402Z-8a7e3db28875
@misc{dz_us_benefit_payment_intel_us_benefit_paym_8a7e3db2,
title = {{US federal benefit-payment calendar, daily (2025-2027)}},
author = {{US federal benefit-payment calendar (SSA / SSI / VA / DFAS)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/us_benefit_payment_intel/us_benefit_payment_calendar_daily?snapshot=20261001T213402Z-8a7e3db28875}},
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