An official website of the United States government MenuHomeSSA.govOnline ServicesComment PolicySearchmy Social Security October 30, 2017 •By Jim Borland, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Communications Reading Time: 2 Minutes Last Updated:August 19, 2021It’s the morning of a busy day at home and you get a call from an unknown number. You answer only to find yourself on the receiving end of a threatening message saying your Social Security benefits will stop immediately unless you provide your personal information. It happens every day to thousands of Americans. And it’s not Social Security calling.Scammers have many ways to lure their victims into providing information and then stealing their identities. Sometimes they call under a guise of helping you complete a disability application.Protecting your information is an important part of Social Security’s mission to secure today and tomorrow. SSA employees occasionally contact citizens by telephone for customer-service purposes. In only...
