How do I auto-populate a specific date for the current month?

[InspectahDex]

I need to auto-populate a specific date for the current month my SAS program runs. I am assigning a variable called "StartDate" a date value which needs to be the 9th of the month that the program is run. So for example for this month, every row needs a value of "09/09/2021". For next month, I need the program to autopopulate to "10/09/2021" and so on.

[ChrisNZ]

Like this?

STARTDATE=intnx('month',today(),0,'s')+8; format STARTDATE date9.;