Your Income Letter
The Social Security Statement is a valuable document that estimates your future
Social Security benefits and tells you how to qualify for those benefits. This service
allows you to transmit your request for a Social Security Statement using an online
form. However, SSA will not send your Statement information back on the Internet.
Instead, you will receive a response to your request by U.S. mail in 2-4 weeks.
Your Social Security Statement will include:
A record of your earnings history and an estimate of how much you and your employer
paid in Social Security taxes;
and Estimates of benefits you (and your family) may be eligible for now and in the
future.
To request your Social Security Statement, you will need:
Your name as shown on your Social Security Card Your Social Security Number
Your date of birth
Your place of birth
Your mother's maiden name - last name only (to help identify you)
Optional:
It will help us give you better benefit estimates if you also give us:
Your last years' earnings and an estimate of your current and future earnings,and
Age at which you plan to stop work
You may access the online calculator here in order to estimate your future benefit.
