Advice needed! SSI payments stopped

[Frank2000]

The suspension of payments has happened to me several times. This year I was able to resolve the problem without actually missing a single monthly payment.

If you have ave a copy of the original form (preprinted with your name, address and SS number) you can go to a local kiosk that can scan both sides of the form and send each of them (in PDF format) to your WhatsApp.

Then you can send the two pages (front and back) of the completed and signed form to someone in the USA who can print both pages and mail them directly to the SSA. It should not take more than two weeks for all of the delayed payments to be deposited into the designated account.

PS: With the help of my sister in law I have done this successfully three times. The first time I sent photos of the form that I took with my cell phone. I chose to send the pages in PDF because the details of the scans were better.

Hello Steve. This is useful information. My father-in-law has the same problem. One question is your address with SS a US address or an Argentine address? Thanks

 

[steveinbsas]

Hello Steve. This is useful information. My father-in-law has the same problem. One question is your address with SS a US address or an Argentine address? Thanks

My monthly benefit is deposited directly into my US bank account. The SSA sends the form to my Argentine address, a house which is about 10 km from the office of correo Argentine in Punta Alta.

In 2024 the SSA sent two forms. The first in June or July I returned it by certified mail, but it was not recieved.The second form was dated October, 24th, but I did not recieve it until March, along with a separate notice dated January 30th, informing me that my benefits were suspended beginning in February. They had aparently been at the local post office until they were delivered on the same day in March. The man who delivers packages to my house brougt the letters. He delivers many packages and apparently has a better ability to find my house than the chico who delivers the mail (which averages about two sobres annually).

Fortunately, on the fourth of February I had already checked My Social Security account and realized that the benefits had just been suspended. I had made a photcopy of the "blank" form (preprinted with my SS details) prior to returning the form in 2024, so I then completed that form, including an explaination why my sister-in-law was sending the form for me. She mailed it on about the tenth of February and the February benefit was deposited to my Schwab account about two weeks later.

 

[steveinbsas]

PS: In January I had "confirmed" that my monthly benefits were still scheduled to be sent on the third day of the month, in spite of "reports" in another thread that, beginning in January, the deposits would be made later in the month. I actually recieved the January deposit on the fourth, even though the benefits letter for 2024 had indicated that the benefits would be sent on the third day of the month. When I checked My Social Security account on the fourth of February (after not having recieved a deposit on the thIrd), I saw that benefits had been suspended.

 

[rdcooper]

This is the address (copied from the original return envelope) that I provided to my sister in law to send both pages of the form after my SSA payments were suspended:

Social Security Administration
PO Box 7162
Wilkes Barre PA 81767-7162

Is there any way to avoid having to fill out that form? I'm not receiving Social Security just yet, but I don't intend to inform them I'm moving overseas. I'm keeping my banking in the US, and a US address for correspondence. Unless the IRS reports my tax returns to SSA, how would they know?

 

[steveinbsas]

Is there any way to avoid having to fill out that form? I'm not receiving Social Security just yet, but I don't intend to inform them I'm moving overseas. I'm keeping my banking in the US, and a US address for correspondence. Unless the IRS reports my tax returns to SSA, how would they know?

As far as I know, based on AI answers to my specific questions, there is no law or even a Social Security Administracion "regulation" that requires a beneficiary of retirement benefits to provide a foreign address even if they are living full time outside of the USA, though I remember reading something about a somewhat recent reqirement to apply for.benefits in person, especially disability benefits. I don't know if it's possible to accomplish these tasks at a consulate or embassy. Beginning in 2012, I have done everything online (except for going to a kiosk or the post office in.Punta Alta).

 

[Stantucker]

Can I send in a downloaded and printed generic copy of form 7162, or do I have to use the form the SSA send out with pre-printed information? I'd be sending in the form from the US.