Social Security Benefit Statements

SOCIAL SECURITY STATEMENTS ONLINE

You may be aware that last year Social Security suspended the mailing of the annual benefit estimate Statements due to federal budget considerations. Recently, the agency resumed sending the Statement, but only to people who are age 60 and older and who are not yet on benefits; people younger than 60 will not have a Statement mailed to them.

However, this week the agency set up an online service that allows people age 18 and older to register and create a personal My Social Security account. People can then get benefit estimates, view their yearly earnings history and also get general information about Social Security.

Click on the link below for the Social Security web page. On the left hand side you will see the link entitled “Get Your Social Security Statement online.” Just click on it to get all the information and to register for your own personal account.

http://www.ssa.gov/