Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Planning for the future?

Social Security’s online Retirement Estimator, available at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator, can now be used to provide immediate and personalized benefit estimates to Medicare only beneficiaries. This means that people who have enrolled in Medicare, but have not yet filed for Social Security benefits, will no longer need to contact their local office to obtain an estimate of their retirement benefits.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Alert from Social Security - Don't get Scammed


Beware of Recovery "Phishers"
Beneficiaries are, no doubt, looking forward to receiving their one-time recovery payments from Social Security. But Social Security wants to warn people not to fall victim to scammers who may be "phishing" for a cut of their own. To make sure no one does, we'll state the facts as clearly as possible:
All Social Security and SSI beneficiaries who are eligible for the special one-time recovery payment will have their payment issued in May;
The payment is automatic; and
There are no requests to make, no applications to complete, no emails to respond to and no fees to pay.
If you receive an email from anyone claiming to want to help obtain your payment, don't fall victim to the scam. Social Security has an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that will investigate allegations of fraud, including circumstances where scammers attempt to intercept a beneficiary's one-time economic recovery payment. Please report such activity to Social Security's OIG at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/oig/ or by calling the fraud hotline at 1-800-269-0271 between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. EST.