Social Security Customer Service - AARP The Social Security Administration (SSA) offers customer service online, by phone and at field offices nationwide You can conduct most routine business, including applying for benefits and filing appeals, at the Social Security website or by calling the SSA’s national customer service line (800-772-1213)
Social Security Plans ‘Significant’ Staff Reductions - AARP The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced plans this week for a “massive” restructuring of its operations that “will include significant workforce reductions” affecting thousands of jobs In a Feb 28 statement, the agency set a target of cutting its workforce from about 57,000 employees to 50,000, a 12 percent cut
Biggest Social Security Changes for 2025 - AARP The COLA is applied to all Social Security payments — survivor benefits, family benefits and disability benefits, as well as retirement benefits — and to Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a monthly benefit administered by the SSA for people with low incomes and limited assets who are 65 or older, blind or have a disability
How Do Social Security and Medicare Work Together? - AARP The Social Security Administration handles a lot of the paperwork for Medicare, but not all Here's where to head if you need the following services Note that wait times on each agency's toll-free number — Social Security at 800-772-1213 and Medicare at 800-633-4227 can be long
Social Security to No Longer Allow Phone Call Verification The Social Security Administration (SSA) says it will no longer allow beneficiaries and those applying for Social Security to confirm their identity over the phone and will instead require that they do so online or in person at a local office to complete the application process The change, announced March 18, is scheduled to take effect March 31
How are Social Security benefits calculated? - AARP That’s the foundation the Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to calculate your benefits, using a three-step process First, the SSA adjusts your earnings for historical changes in U S wages, takes your 35 best-paid years and produces what it calls your average indexed monthly earnings (AIME)
How To Report A Death To Social Security - AARP Funeral directors can report deaths to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in most cases Social Security provides a form for this purpose In addition, vital-statistics offices in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D C , have implemented Electronic Death Registration, a web-based system that aims to deliver death information to the SSA with greater speed and accuracy