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Get Your Social Security Benefit Statement

January 30, 2020 • By

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" "Tax season is approaching, and we have made replacing your annual Benefit Statement even easier. The Benefit Statement, also known as the SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S, is a tax form we mail each year in January to people who receive Social Security benefits. It shows the total amount of benefits you received from us in the previous year so you know how much Social Security income to report to the IRS on your tax return.

If you live in the United States and you need a replacement form SSA-1099 or SSA-1042S, simply go online and get an instant, printable replacement form using your personal my Social Security account. A replacement SSA-1099 or SSA-1042S is available for the previous tax year after February 1.

If you already have a personal my Social Security account, you can log in to your account to view and print your SSA-1099 or SSA-1042S. If you don’t have access to a printer, you can save the document to your computer or email it to yourself. If you don’t have a personal my Social Security account, creating one is very easy to do and usually takes less than 10 minutes.

If you’re a non-citizen who lives outside of the United States and you received or repaid Social Security benefits last year, we will send you form SSA-1042S in the mail. The forms SSA-1099 and SSA-1042S are not available for people who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.

With a personal my Social Security account, you can do much of your business with us online. If you receive benefits or have Medicare, your personal my Social Security account is also the best way to:

  • Request a replacement Social Security number card (in most states and the District of Columbia).
  • Get your benefit verification letter.
  • Check your benefit and payment information.
  • Change your address and phone number.
  • Change your direct deposit information.
  • Request a replacement Medicare card.
  • Report your wages if you work and receive Social Security disability insurance or SSI benefits.

Visit our website to find more about our online services.

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Mike Korbey, Deputy Commissioner for Communications

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Comments

  1. Vijay N.

    My Social Service account is not available to Canadian residents. It would help it it were made available to us.

  2. Vijay N.

    I am a Canadian citizen who lives in Canada and receives SS pension. Our (both mine and that of my wife) SSA-1042S haven’t arrived yet (March 03). How can we get them? I need it to file my taxes. Kind Regards.

    • Vijay N.

      btw we can’t set up my Social Security account because we don’t have a US address. It would be nice if we could. Please do consider extending it to Canadian residents.

  3. Mary A.

    I live in Italy. I forgot my password for my SS account and I cannot find it again because I cannot call from Italy the 800 number. I have not received my SSA 1099 paper

  4. Sharon

    I need a proof of income letter for zoey Newsom

  5. Anthony B.

    I need to cancel the social security monthly payment for Bobbie Bush, my dad, who passed away on Thursday, 2.27.20

  6. GEORGE B.

    It’s nice to see responses in 19 days.
    I set up my own MySocialSecurity account several years ago and use it regularly. It works well for me, a computer-savvy 70-year-old with a text-capable smartphone.
    My 90-year-old father does not have a computer, so I tried to set up an account for him with my laptop. The SSA refused to set up his account. Some of the questions asked about financial affairs decades ago; the website considered one or another of his answers incorrect, called his application “fraudulent,” and refused to create an account. (So much for “easy to open.”)
    My 89-year-old mother is in a nursing home; no Internet access, not even cell phone service. How does she create a MySocialSecurity account?
    I have Power of Attorney, but the local SSA office tells me the SSA does not accept powers of attorney and will not talk to me about my parents’ Social Security accounts.
    I got my SSA-1099 early in January; my mother hasn’t received hers yet. I need it to file her tax return. Too bad, right?

    • Barbara M.

      That is not true SSI is only for people who did not pay in enough to draw their social security disability she can receive her ex-husband’s Social Security disability if she never remarried and they were married at least 10 years

  7. dorothy j.

    Will my SSA1099 Benefit statement be mailed to me ? I don’t have printer access and would like to be sure this comes to me at my current address, ie, 1244 Harbor Drive Apt 306, Slidell, LA 70458

  8. Jeanne D.

    The notice I was receiving that stated what year I could file for social security and how much I would be getting every month is no longer sent to me. If someone could guide me through the ssa web site I would appreciate it. Or if you could email this information to me that would be great. Thank you.

  9. David

    If I receive disability benefits, do I lose them if I get married. Or will my benefits decrease?

  10. Freeman E.

    The second year in a roll Social Security did not bother to mail my 1099 . Why?

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