[Gaffer]

I remember sending in documents of proof of something they required and getting them back with no real explanation except that I did remember seeing something somewhere that original documents required would be returned after receipt. I’m guessing that’s what the papers that were stamped “received” were intending to convey.

I’d call the SS and talk to an agent and ask them to check on the status of my submission and if anything else is needed.

[444Flyer]

This might be your case manager.

[metmom]

What government agency ISN’T out of control????

[Nateman]

Socialist Insecurity is Welfare and a Ponzi scam. It is a fiction that it is some kind of old age insurance. I'm old enough to get It now and it's worthless. It would pay 1/3 of my living expenses if that much. My expenses are the bare minimum. If I could end the while damn scam with a wave of a magic wand I would do so .

[fruser1]

I don’t see a problem here.

Unfortunately, starting up benefits w/SS is not like ordering a cheeseburger at McDonalds.

Your most relevant stuff was digitized and will go into queue for processing.

You can contact the local office and ask for status. There will likely not be immediate answer. I know someone who made an appointment with them when starting up and the earliest they could get was about a month out.

[Spktyr]

Tell me, do you also go to the store and pay with a check, then when the cashier hands you the check back you stare at it dumbfounded while the staff tell you yet again that no, they don’t need to keep the check any more, that it’s been scanned by the register, will be processed electronically and they’ve told you this every time you’ve done this for the past several years? Whilst everyone else is standing there getting increasingly annoyed that you’re holding up the line and wondering why you’re not just using a debit card because that’s literally what a check gets processed as these days?

What’s happened is that the SSA has received your documents and forms, looked at them to ascertain authenticity and validity, scanned them into the database and returned them. This, like checks, is standard operating procedure these days. There’s no need to retain and move around vast amounts of physical paper, which is expensive, slows down service time and is a fire hazard.

Because the SSA and other government agencies often require original documents, they scan and return your submissions. (I once worked a contract in an IRS contracted facility that scanned taxpayer mail-in submissions from the local region, but these forms were shredded after scanning.) There’s no need for them to retain them and every reason for you to get the original documents back. This has been standard practice for at least the last fifteen years.