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Using your online “my Social Security” account
For many seniors, using today’s digital tools can seem intimidating. The internet feels like an alien presence, fraught with lurking dangers we don’t care to be exposed to. But the Social Security Administration has gone to great lengths to make…
SSA Milestone: Over 100 million online accounts
In this inexorably digital world, the Social Security Administration has, for years, been encouraging current and future beneficiaries to use SSA’s online portal for accessing information and completing transactions. Online access does, indeed, provide a faster and more convenient way…
Ask Rusty – Do I Need to Sign Up for an Online Social Security Account?
Dear Rusty: I recently I heard the tail end of a radio program which was discussing “signing up for my Social Security account.” I am now 76 years old and have been receiving my SSA monthly amount directly into a…