Insist on Filing a Claim for Benefits

When you think the clerk may be wrong about your eligibility to file for social security, insist on knowing the facts.
Insist on Filing a Claim for Benefits
Sometimes social security clerks will give the wrong information so be sure to double check. Party people studio/Shutterstock
Tom Margenau
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In a recent survey I conducted, my readers gave the Social Security Administration outstanding marks for the services they provide. Still, that doesn’t mean that no one encounters any problems dealing with them.

I bring this up again because, despite the survey results, I continue to hear from readers who tell me that they contacted the SSA with the intention of filing for Social Security benefits of one kind or another and then were either told they weren’t eligible for any benefits or were otherwise talked out of filing.

Tom Margenau
Tom Margenau
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Tom Margenau worked for 32 years in a variety of positions for the Social Security Administration before retiring in 2005. He has served as the director of SSA’s public information office, the chief editor of more than 100 SSA publications, a deputy press officer and spokesman, and a speechwriter for the commissioner of Social Security. For 12 years, he also wrote Social Security columns for local newspapers, and recently published the book “Social Security: Simple and Smart.” If you have a Social Security question, contact him at [email protected]
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