Get to Know Your Social Security
Reading Time: 2 MinutesLast Updated: November 3, 2023
Social Security touches the lives of nearly every American. We’ve been with you from day one, when your parents applied for your Social Security number, and we are with you from your first job through your retirement party and beyond.
For more than 80 years, Social Security has stayed true to its mission of providing financial protection for the American people and has served as one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in our nation’s history. We encourage everyone to take steps toward their financial security. Regardless of your age or place in life, now is the right time to start planning for a financially secure future for you and your family.
Everyone can benefit from our first step: Get to know your Social Security. You can start your journey through all things Social Security by visiting our website and navigating through our menu.
Along the way, you’ll see how your Social Security number opens many important doors throughout life, from making it easier to apply for student aid and open your first bank account to starting your first job and buying your first house. You’ll also discover how your contributions to the Social Security system through FICA payroll taxes can make you eligible for important future benefits when you reach retirement age or if you become severely injured or ill.
You’ll find how Social Security helps your family in the form of survivor benefits and how our Supplemental Security Income program assists disabled children and our most vulnerable adults.
We also encourage you to visit our website and set up your own personal my Social Security account today so you can begin taking steps toward financial security.
Through our website and your online account with us, you can:
- Verify your lifetime earnings record to ensure you’re getting credit for all your contributions toward Social Security and Medicare.
- Estimate future benefits for you and your family.
- Manage your Social Security benefits and personal information.
We encourage you to visit us online.
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Jim Borland, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Communications
Jim Borland, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Communications
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tony
I get free SSDI and VA disability money. The VA doesn’t even use a Vocational Expert to determine if you are unemployable. The SSA use to give the VA rating weight. Those veterans in the past are getting free money for life from Social Security and the VA.
tony
Court cases are still being remanded back to the Appeals Counsel.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16336101973824863680&q=astrue+veteran+iu&hl=en&scisbd=2&as_sdt=40006
tony
According to Social Security law, the only government agency afforded great weight is the State DDS. There is no mention of the VA.
John W.
Thanks, I appreciate the input. Knowledge is power!!
John V.
I need help with this new online services.
I can be reached at 203 927-9278.
johnvferraro@yahoo.com.
Thanks.
John V Ferraro.
R.F.
Hi John, please call 1-800-772-1213 for assistance. After you hear “Briefly tell me why you are calling,” say “Help Desk” for help with a my Social Security account. Also, you can call your local Social Security office directly and explain your situation. Thanks!
Edward M.
That’s all wonderful, but now you have too find a better way for our cola, what they do now hurts our pocket.
William F.
I don’t know my cola for my next term. Can I get from you guys?
Melynda H.
I have a question. There are many individuals on social security Why cannot the government build houses for these individuals charge them rent put the rent money back into the social security system.
Snarky
Now you want the government to be landlords? Move to Venezuela, it might be more to your liking.
Martha S.
What is SS doing about All the Fraud?!
Millions of people during obama years went directly from unemployment benefits to disability benefits!
No way that is legitimate and you know it!!
Truth
That is also completely false. There is an incredibly long period of wait to be approved for disability benefits. And, again it was that 1996 congress. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996 (Welfare Reform) was enacted to move people out of welfare and into work. Welfare reform has increased the financial incentives for state governments to promote movement by recipients of assistance from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to the Supplemental Security Income program. Thereby increasing the number of people on assistance from Social Security. In fact, From 1996 to 2002, the total number of welfare recipients in the nation declined by 58 percent (DHHS 2003b, II–5). From 1990 to 2003, the number of disabled-worker beneficiaries increased 84 percent; disabled widow(er)s, 105 percent; and disabled adult children, 24 percent.
EDWARD W.
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO. LAST FOUR 0903. 71 YEARS OLD.EWC.
william t.
when will IRS consider indexing taxable social security benefits like standard deduction (it is same for many years)
Hospitals &.
In re: Health and Welfare. http://www.title24uscode.org/hw.html
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