An Index of Social Security Online

• Publications
  • The Trustees Report--Financial Outlook for Social Security
  • Actuarial Studies and Notes
• Estimate your benefit with one of our calculators
• Automatic Increases --COLAs and Wage-Indexed Amounts
• Program Data
  • Trust Fund Financial Data --historical data on trust fund operations and investments
  • Beneficiary Data --historical data on numbers of beneficiaries and average benefits
• Actuaries at SSA

Information on how to appeal a decision from Social Security

• Publications on the Appeals Process
• Selected Appeals Forms
• Office of Disability Adjudication and Review

• How To Apply For Social Security Retirement Benefits
• How To Apply For Social Security Disability Benefits
• Apply for Retirement/Spouse`s Benefits Online
• Apply for Disability Benefits Online

How to Apply For a Replacement Social Security Card

• Benefit Publications - a complete list of all publications
• Lista De Publicaciones En Español (Spanish Publications)
• Medicare Information
• FAX Catalog -- Publications about benefits by FAX
• Social Security Disability Benefits
• The Social Security Handbook -- A comprehensive guide to all of Social Security`s benefit programs
• Latest COLA and how it was calculated
• A Fact Sheet on the latest COLA
• Compute your own benefit with either our Quick Calculator or Detailed Calculator
• Benefits Planner

• Operational Finances — SSA`s Performance and Accountability Report
• The Current Budget Proposal for the Social Security Administration
• The Annual Performance Plan

• How to change your address
• Change your address or phone number online
• Request or change direct deposit of checks

The Commissioner of the Social Security Administration is  Michael J. Astrue.

• The Social Security Statement - A statement of your lifetime earnings and an estimate of your benefits.
• Estimate your benefit with one of our calculators
• How Your Retirement Benefit is Figured - A publication on how your benefit is computed
• Formula for computing the primary insurance amount (the basis for benefits)

Congressional Testimony -- Testimony before Congress by SSA officials

• Latest COLA Information - Detailed Benefit, Tax and Wage-Indexed Changes
• COLA Fact Sheet
• National average wage index and historical series
• OASDI contribution and benefit base
• Exempt amounts under the retirement earnings test
• Amount of earnings a person must have to be credited with a quarter of coverage
• "Old-law" contribution and benefit base
• Domestic worker coverage threshold
• Substantial gainful activity amounts for disabled beneficiaries

Report a Death

Search SSA's Death Master File

A complete guide to the direct deposit of your monthly benefits.

• Disability Planner
• Social Security Disability Programs
• Employment Support for People With Disabilities
• Apply for Disability Benefits Online
• Improving the Disability Determination Process - SSA Announces Proposed Regulation to Improve Social Security’s Disability Process

• Electronic W-2 Filing for Employers
• FAQs on Wage Reporting

• Employer Reporting Instructions and Information
• Names and Social Security Numbers -- A guide to assist employers in preparing accurate W-2s.
• Verification of Names and Social Security Numbers
• Frequently Asked Questions for Employers

SSA Employment Opportunities
The kinds of positions that SSA usually recruits for, the current job openings, employment office addresses and phone numbers, and how to apply for positions; resources are also included for:

• veterans
• people with disabilities
• students and college graduates
• bilingual-bicultural applicants

Social Security Publications in Spanish

FAX Catalog -- Publications by FAX

General Feedback on Social Security Online After searching a Frequently Asked Question database, you ask your question or leave your comment.

Social Security Forms - Common forms that you need to do business with SSA. This page lists the forms or you can search the forms database.

If you need a form that is not currently available for download, you should call 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778) to request the form.

Find your form using the Form Search Tool:

• Office of Inspector General
• How to report fraud

• Freedom of Information reading room
• Our Web privacy policy
• Guide to Freedom of Information Act Requests

• A searchable database of all of SSA`s Frequently Asked Questions
• Frequently Asked Questions in Spanish
• Frequently Asked Questions for Employers

The Social Security Handbook -- A comprehensive guide to all of Social Security`s benefit programs

Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR)

• Office of Inspector General
• How to Report Fraud

• Kids`s Pages
• Parents' Place

• Compilation of Social Security Laws -- The full text of the Social Security Act, as Amended, and selected provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
• Legislation -- Recent legislation affecting Social Security benefits
• Congressional Testimony -- Testimony before Congress by SSA officials
• History of the Social Security Act

• Use our Social Security Office Locator -- Type in your postal ZIP code and we will tell you how to contact your servicing office.
• Visit one of our Regional Home Pages -- All ten regions  have pages highlighting regional initiatives, local public information resources, and connections to local offices.

• Medicare - The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare Information
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - The Medicare and Medicaid Agency
• Medicare Premium Information - The new rates
• Who to Contact - Information by State on who to contact about:
  • Your Medicare Bill
  • Getting Medicare, Other Health Insurance, Other Benefits
  • Complaints, Appeals, and Other Medicare Rights
  • Your Health Plan Choices
• Information on the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
• New Medicare Prescription Drug Plan
• Latest Information on TRICARE

Other Government Sites of Interest to Social Security Online Users

Other SSA Sites -- How We are Organized

Social Security offers password services. Choose from the options below:

• Password Registration
  (Select this if you received a password request code from Social Security and would like to register your password.)
• Change your password
• Block password access to your personal information
  (Select this if you have a password and no longer wish to use it, or if you received a letter from us about password services and you want to block access to your personal information .)
• Lost or forgotten password or password request code (Select this if you lost or forgot your password or password request code.)

Learn more about the Office of Policy.

• Appeals
• General Social Security Publications
• Retirement
• Survivor`s
• Disability
• Supplemental Security Income
• Social Security Numbers
• Spanish
• Publications by FAX
• The Social Security Handbook -- A comprehensive guide to all of Social Security`s benefit programs

• Current rules & regulations
  
• Proposed rules & regulations

Learn more about the Office of Policy.

• Retirement Planner
• Publications
• How To Apply For Social Security Retirement and/or Spouse`s Benefits
• How Your Retirement Benefit Is Figured
• Social Security Statement
• Calculate your own benefit with either our Quick Calculator or Detailed Calculator (ANYPIA program)

• Request a Social Security Statement
• How to Interpret Your Social Security Statement

• How to Apply For a Social Security Card
• Social Security Numbers for Non-Citizens (Legal Aliens)
• When Someone Misuses Your Social Security Number
• Your Number and Card

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Chile
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Ireland
• Italy

• Japan
• Korea
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom

• Employer Reporting Instructions and Information
• Frequently Asked Questions for Employers
• Wage Reporting for State and Local Governments

• Publications on Survivor`s Benefits
• Survivors Planner