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When you applied for Social Security benefits, how long did it take to hear back from them?

Posted on 07/14/2014 3:31:29 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012

I applied for Social Security online on June 9, three months before my 62nd birthday. I have not heard anything and when I check online, it says no decision has been made yet. I called and wen through the prompts just to be told no decisions had been made and I could "hold" for a representative. I held for about 15 minutes but had to go to work and haven't tried to call back.

I want to give my notice at work but not until I am sure I will be receiving my money.

Just looking for others' experiences with Social Security.

Thanks.


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To: macglencoe

My uncle told me a couple of years ago (he was 94 and since passed away) to take it at 62 because it might not be there much longer. I really want to stop working. I have worked 42 years and am ready to stay in my pajamas and be on FR all day. I will try calling again tomorrow. I have checked online several times and it just says a decision hasn’t been made yet. What is to decide? I have more than enough work credits and did my application online.

Just another reason for me to hate the federal government.

Thanks to all of you for your experiences.


21 posted on 07/14/2014 4:02:24 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

I applied three months ahead of time, took 6 weeks or more for approval, and finally got my first check 2 months and 2 days after my birthday this year. Someone I know locally had the same experience.


22 posted on 07/14/2014 4:05:10 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER; ilovesarah2012
It was 7 months between my application and the first check.

I too was about 7 months. I applied 3 months out per their instructions. Got a letter in a few weeks that all was accepted. So I started watching my bank account. No check. Next month, no check.And so on

So what happened? "Well, we are on a payment cycle and your approval just missed the first cut off so you will start the next cycle two months from now"

The checks have been steady once they got started. Obama even gave me a "raise" just before the election too. Not enough to make me vote for the bast^rd though

23 posted on 07/14/2014 4:06:31 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: mountn man

Four weeks for my husband in 2013.


24 posted on 07/14/2014 4:09:21 PM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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To: House Atreides

Only the federal government could make something that should be simple so complicated. How depressing!


25 posted on 07/14/2014 4:15:44 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: OftheOhio

That really seems unfair. Seems to me if you turn 62, the next month you should get a check. I can only imagine what vets go through with the VA.


26 posted on 07/14/2014 4:17:12 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

I just applied last Wednesday, which is about 90 days before my 62nd birthday. I was also told to apply as soon as I could. I haven’t worked since 2011, so the income will be appreciated. When I applied, the website indicated I would get my first payment in November of this year (the month after I turn 62). Then, a few hours later I received an e mail telling me to check on my application in 5 days. Those five days has not passed yet, actually I’m assuming they were speaking five work days, not 5 days in a row...


27 posted on 07/14/2014 4:18:42 PM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I applied online Nov 2011 received claim receipt Dec 20 and first check Jan 18 2012.


28 posted on 07/14/2014 4:28:28 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: siamesecats

Good luck.


29 posted on 07/14/2014 4:29:23 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MRourke85

LOL That’s what I’m thinking.


31 posted on 07/14/2014 4:37:24 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Does anyone know how to estimate the amount of your benefit if you quit working early?
The website gives you your estimates for retiring at 62, 67, and 70 with the assumption that you are working right up until then. What I want to do is see the effect of quitting early.


32 posted on 07/14/2014 4:38:13 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: robowombat

“I would recommend you visit your local SSA office.”

Good advice. That is what I did, and it went through without a hitch.


33 posted on 07/14/2014 4:42:16 PM PDT by VMI70
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To: ilovesarah2012

Another way to look at it is: how long from the time they pull your benefits because they think you’re dead until they restore it? Even if you go to the local office to prove you’re not dead. Grandad waited over ten months. We all had gone to the local SS office to prove he was still alive. Interesting visit; armed guards, staff behind bullet proof glass ....other things that would make me a racist.


34 posted on 07/14/2014 4:59:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (When the government is above the law, it's called fascism.)
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To: rhinohunter

I have no idea. I didn’t expect this to be complicated at all. I just think of my mother. She applied to receive her benefits at 62 and passed away the month before she would have received them. That’s what sucks. You work your whole life and if you die, no one gets YOUR money. I don’t want that to happen to me.

As the J.G. Wentworth commercial goes “It’s my money and I want it now!”


35 posted on 07/14/2014 5:05:30 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

There’s a widow/widower benefit if they were married 10 years or more, but no benefit other than that for survivors.

IIRC when soc sec passed in the 30s, the life expectancy of a man was 66. So they didn’t worry about the fund because the men would not live one enough to get paid back.


36 posted on 07/14/2014 5:10:21 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I applied a couple of months before my 62th birthday but not online..

I went into my local office..talked to a real person..Heard back almost right away..

started collecting the month after my birthday..


37 posted on 07/14/2014 5:12:18 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: ilovesarah2012

Hmmm...this thread just...seems to rub me the wrong way...


38 posted on 07/14/2014 5:15:58 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: ilovesarah2012
Change your voter registration to "D" and I'm sure you will get a quick follow up...

As much as Obama has politicized every federal agency I'm sure that the SS office is not immune...

39 posted on 07/14/2014 5:19:02 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Be aware that whatever month your retirement is effective, your check doesn’t come till the following month. If you retire in July, you won’t start getting checks until August.


40 posted on 07/14/2014 5:21:36 PM PDT by anoldafvet (Close the border!!!)
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