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New rules
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Social Security
number and
card

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What you
can do
online
Apply for
benefits
Replace your
lost, stolen or
damaged
Medicare card
Request a
Proof of
Income letter
Change
address/phone
number
Find a Social
Security office
More online
services....

News
Social Security
Trustees
release 2008
Annual Report
Social Security
offers positions
to 144 ALJs
Stimulus
payment
questions?

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Your Social Security records
Your number & card | Your Statement
Retirement
Plan your retirement |
Calculate your benefits
Qualify & apply |
Already receiving benefits
Medicare
Medicare Prescription Drug
Plan | Other Medicare information
Disability & SSI
Qualify & apply |
Already receiving benefits
Ticket to Work | Adults disabled
before age 22
More disability information | SSI for
people 65 and older
Widows, widowers & other
survivors
Report a death | Qualify & apply
Already receiving benefits
Get help with your situation
Marriage, divorce, and name changes
Birth of a child | Death in the family
Disagree with our decision? | More
situations...
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Services
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Services
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Nation's first
Baby Boomer
receives her
first Social
Security
retirement
benefit

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Commissioner
Astrue
commends
President's FY
2009 Budget
Request
Plan to
eliminate the
hearing
backlog and
prevent Its
recurrence
Social Security
holds first
disability
hearing on
Compassionate
Allowances
Social Security
releases the FY
2007
Performance
and
Accountability
Report
Social Security
improves
service and
expands
outreach to
wounded
veterans
Social Security
delivers the
most popular
baby names for
2006
More...
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No Fear Act Data | This is a U.S.
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Federal law

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Online Claims & Services
What You Can Do Online
Updated: 03/25/08

Hours of Operation: Apply for benefits
(All times ET)
Weekdays 5 AM - 1 AM
Saturday 5 AM - 11 PM
Sunday 8 AM 11:30 PM

5 AM - 11 PM on
these holidays:
New Years Day
Independence Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Hours for all other
holidays are:
5 AM - 1 AM

Field Office Locator
Use your ZIP code to
locate the closest Social
Security Office.
Available
Weekdays (except
2 AM - 3 AM)
Saturday 5 AM - 11 PM
Sunday 8 AM 11:30 PM
Holidays 5 AM - 11 PM

Other things you
can do online

Apply for Social Security retirement or spouse’s Find out if you qualify
benefits
for ...
Note: If you're an Advocate, Attorney or Third

Social Security,
Party Representative, we need additional
Supplemental
information from you on the application.
Security Income
(SSI), or other
Apply for Social Security disability benefits
benefits
(includes the Adult Disability Report).
(En Español)
Note: If you're an Advocate, Attorney or Third

Extra help with
Party Representative, we need additional
your Medicare
information from you on the application.
prescription drug
costs
Begin or continue the Adult Disability and Work Estimate your future
History Report.
benefits
When you apply for any type of disability
Request a Social
benefits, we need information about your
medical, work, and education history to help us Security Statement
If you get benefits ...
decide if you are disabled.

Change your
address/phone
Apply for extra help with your Medicare
number
prescription drug costs.

Get a
replacement
Check the status of your online application.
Medicare Card
If you applied online for Social Security
Retirement, Spouse’s, or Disability benefits you If you have a
password ...
can check the status of your application.
Use Business Services
Appeal our recent medical decision about your Online to Report Wages
disability claim or continue the appeal you
Verify Social Security
already started.
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Do you qualify for benefits?

Find out what benefits you can apply for .
Use our screening tool to help identify all the
different Social Security programs for which you
may be eligible.

Year you were born:

Find out if you can get extra help with your
Medicare prescription drug costs.

1937 or earlier
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Find your full
retirement age

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Note: If you were born
on January 1st, select

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Estimate your future benefits

the previous year.

Use our benefit planners to calculate your
retirement, disability and survivors benefits.
(You can do this any time.)

Request a Social Security Statement
Get your personal earnings report and benefit
estimates by mail.
This service is available (Eastern Time):
Weekdays - All Day (except 2 AM - 3 AM),
Saturday 5 AM - 11 PM,
Sunday 8 AM - 10 PM,
Holidays 5 AM - 11 PM.
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If you get benefits, you can

Change your address or telephone number.

Get a replacement Medicare Card.

Request a Proof of Income letter.
Get a letter that verifies your Social Security
benefit information.

Get a Form 1099/1042S -- Social Security
Benefit Statement.
Replace the lost, damaged, or missing tax
summary of your Social Security benefits for
2007. (not available for SSI).

Get a password when
 You want password access to
information about your benefits.
 You lost, forgot, or do not have your
password or password request code.
 Your password request code has
expired.

Block online and automated telephone access
to your personal information.
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If you have a password, you can

Check your information and benefits.
See the contact, direct deposit, Medicare and
payment information we have on file for you.

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Change your address or telephone number.

Start or change direct deposit.

Choose your password.
If you received a letter from us about password
services, you can choose your password or
block access to your personal information.

Change your password.
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