Social Security is expanding the services available with a my Social Security account, a personalized online account that people can use beginning in their working years and continuing throughout the time they receive Social Security benefits.
More than 60 million Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients can now access their benefit verification letter, payment history, and earnings record instantly using their online account. Social Security beneficiaries also can change their address and start or change direct deposit information online.
Social Security beneficiaries and SSI recipients with a mySocialSecurity account can go online and get an official benefit verification letter instantly. The benefit verification letter serves as proof of income to secure loans, mortgages and other housing, and state or local benefits. Additionally, people use the letter to prove current Medicare health insurance coverage, retirement or disability status, and age. People can print or save a customized letter. Social Security processed nearly nine million requests for benefit verification letters in the past year. This new online service allows people to conduct business with Social Security without having to visit an office or make a phone call, and very often wait for a letter to arrive in the mail. In addition, the portal also includes links to information about other online services, such as applications for retirement, disability and Medicare.
For more information, please go to www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount. Ms. MacDonald’s practice is limited to Estate Planning, Probate, Conservatorships, Elder Law & Trust Administration. Ms. MacDonald maintains her practice in the Santa Clarita Valley at 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-124, in Valencia. She can be reached at 661-294-6464 or on the web at http://yelllowpieplate.umn.edu/indexB.html.