You change your mailing address for checks or
residence. To avoid delay in receipt of checks you
should ALSO file a regular change of address notice
with your post office.
Your citizenship or immigration status changes.
You go outside the U.S.A. for 30 consecutive days or
longer.
Any beneficiary dies or becomes unable to handle
benefits.
Custody Change—Report if a person for whom you are
filing or who is in your care dies, leaves your care or
custody, or changes address.
You are confined to jail, prison, penal institution or
correctional facility for conviction of a crime or you are
confined to a public institution by court order in
connection with a crime.
You become entitled to a pension or annuity based on
your employment after 1956 not covered by Social
Security, or if such pension or annuity stops.
Your stepchild is entitled to benefits on your record
and you and the stepchild's parent divorce. Stepchild
benefits are not payable beginning with the month
after the month the divorce becomes final.
You have an unsatisfied warrant for your arrest for a
crime or attempted crime that is a felony (or, in
jurisdictions that do not define crimes as felonies, a
crime that is punishable by death or imprisonment for
a term exceeding 1 year).
You have an unsatisfied warrant for a violation of
probation or parole under Federal or State law.
If you are awarded benefits, and one or more of
thhange(s) should be reported by:
Change of Marital Status—Marriage, divorce, annulment
of marriage. You must report marriage even if you
believe that an exception applies.
You return to work (as an employee or self-employed)
regardless of amount of earnings.
Your condition improves.
CLAIMANT
SSA OFFICE
RECEIPT FOR YOUR CLAIM FOR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS
Your application for Social Security disability benefits has
been received and will be processed as quickly as possible.
You should hear from us within days after you have
given us all the information we requested. Some claims may
take longer if additional information is needed.
In the meantime, if you change your address, or if there is
DATE CLAIM RECEIVED
some other change that may affect your claim, you — or
someone for you — should report the change. The changes to
be reported are listed below.
Always give us your claim number when writing or telephoning
about your claim.
If you have any questions about your claim, we will be glad to
help you.
SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIM NUMBER
PERSON TO CONTACT ABOUT YOUR CLAIM
TELEPHONE NUMBER (INCLUDE AREA CODE)
CHANGES TO BE REPORTED AND HOW TO REPORT
FAILURE TO REPORT MAY RESULT IN OVERPAYMENTS THAT MUST BE REPAID
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Your condition improves.
You are under age 65 and you apply for or begin to receive
workers' compensation (including black lung benefits) or
another public disability benefit, or the amount of your
present workers' compensation or public disabi
lity benefit
changes or stop, or you receive a lump-sum settlement
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HOW TO REPORT
You can make your reports by telephone, mail, or in
person, whichever you prefer.
If you are awarded benefits, and one or more of the above
change(s) occur, you should report by:
• Calling us TOLL FREE at 1-800-772-1213.
• If you are deaf or hearing impaired, calling us TOLL
FREE at TTY 1-800-325-0778; or
• Calling, visiting or writing your local Social Security
office at the phone number and address above.
For general information about Social Security, visit our
web site at www.socialsecurity.gov.