****IMPORTANT: Social Security offices are offering more in-person appointments and have resumed in-person services for people without an appointment.
To avoid waiting in line, they strongly encourage people to use the online services at https://www.ssa.gov/onlineservices or call them to schedule
appointments in advance rather than walking in without an appointment.
The Modesto Social Security Administration Office determines eligibility and pays benefits to those entitled to survivor benefits.
Determines eligibility and pays benefits to the entitled legally blind. Determines eligibility and pays retirement benefits to those entitled aged 62 and older.
Social Security Office Hours:
Monday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Top Online Services on SSA.gov
You can go online at: https://www.ssa.gov for the following services. You can take care of these things without making an appointment at your local office.
Apply for Benefits
- Apply for Retirement Benefits
- Apply for Disability Benefits
- Apply for Medicare Benefits
- Appeal a Decision
Check Your Account Information
- View Your Latest SS Statement
- Review Your Earnings History
- Estimate Your Retirement Benefits
- Check Your Application Status
Updates To Your Account
- Change Your Address
- Direct Deposit Setup and Changes
- Print Proof of Benefits
- Print Out Your 1099 Form
SSI makes monthly payments to people who have low income and few resources and are:
Age 65 or older;
Blind; or
Disabled.
If you are applying for SSI, you can complete a large part of your application by visiting our website at www.socialsecurity.gov. You also can call us toll-free at (888) 748-7698 to ask for an appointment with a Social Security representative.
Parents or guardians usually can apply for blind or disabled children under age 18. In some cases, other third parties can apply for children.
You should bring certain items when you apply. Even if you do not have all of the things listed below, apply anyway. The people in the Social Security office can help you get whatever is needed.
Please bring:
- Your Social Security card or a record of your Social Security number;
- Your birth certificate or other proof of your age;
- Information about the home where you live, such as your mortgage or your lease and landlord's name;
- Payroll slips, bank books, insurance policies, burial fund records and other information about your income and the things you own;
- The names, addresses and telephone numbers of doctors, hospitals and clinics that you have been to, if you are applying for SSI because you are disabled or blind;
- Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible noncitizen status; and
- Your checkbook or other papers that show your bank, credit union or savings and loan account number. If you are approved for SSI, you must receive your
payments electronically. Payments may be made via direct deposit, the Direct Express® card program or an Electronic Transfer Account. For more information, visit www.GoDirect.org.
How to apply online?
Visit www.socialsecurity.gov and select 'Apply online for disabilitybenefits.'
Fill out the Disability Benefit Application
Answer the questions on the Adult Disability Report
Mail or take the documents to this Social Security office.
The online forms are available to you seven days a week during the following hours (Eastern time):
Monday-Friday: 5 a.m. until 1 a.m.
Saturday: 5 a.m. until 11 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m. until 11:30 p.m.
Holidays: 5 a.m. until 11 p.m.
Opening Up a MySocialSecurity Account
If you paid in to Social Security or are looking for benefits, you will need to open a 'my Social Security' account. This is an online account directly from the Social Security Administration that lets you keep track of and manage your SSA benefits, and allows you to make changes to your Social Security record.
My Social Security Account
Getting a Social Security Card OR Replacing A Social Security Card OR Correcting A Social Security Card
1. Learn what documents you'll need to get an original, replacement, or corrected Social Security card, whether it's for a child or adult, U.S. citizen or noncitizen.
Documents List.
2. Read the instructions for and fill out an application for a new, replacement, or corrected card.
Social Security Forms
3. Social Security cards aren't processed online. Print your application and find out where to take it in person or mail it.
Missing Social Security Checks or Payments
Contact the agency. The paying agency will provide you instructions on how to file a claim
File the claim with the paying agency. (800) 772-1213.
Supplemental Security Income
Pays benefits based on financial need.
Social Security Disability
Public social insurance programs that replace income lost because of a physical or mental impairment severe enough to prevent a previously employed person from working. Monthly cash benefits are paid to the eligible individual with a disability and his or her eligible dependents throughout the period of disability.
SSI
SSI benefits also are payable to people 65 and older without disabilities who meet the financial limits. People who have worked long enough may also be able to receive Social Security disability or retirement benefits as well as SSI.
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The Modesto office NEEDS a covered waiting area outside for those waiting in line to enter the building one at a time. Whether it’s hot or raining, shelter is very much needed. This covered waiting area should have been added when the building underwent renovation several years ago. However, it’s not too late to remedy this unfortunate oversight.
The Modesto office NEEDS a covered waiting area outside for those waiting in line to enter the building one at a time. Whether it’s hot or raining, shelter is very much needed. This covered waiting area should have been added when the building underwent renovation several years ago. However, it’s not too late to remedy this unfortunate oversight.
I need to do a change of address and I cannot get a hold of a person
I have left 6 messages in different times. I was expecting a call from someone on this date for the annual SSI review and eligibility. No one has called me back and have great concern that her SSI may be disrupted due to not hearing back from someone in your office.
Hola buenos días, he estado llamando varios días, a diferentes horarios y no me contestan. Estoy comunicándome desde México.
Hello! I need to apply for my retirement benefits from France, as I am the citizen of France. I need to make an appointment at SSA to start the process. How can I do it and what documents I need to provide?
Wouldnt even let my children and I file an application for survivors benefits after my husband and our sole financial support died while saving a child. My family is already broken without SSA field office staff descretely depriving us of our constitutional rights by refusing to let us even submit an application. If my family was broken already I feel as though we are shattered into a million messy pieces without ever hope of being put back together. May god show you more mercy than they have shown my family.
i was wonderin bout my social secrity card. im tryin to change my name from pamela huston to pamela chambers
I need a new card. My wallet was stolen with it inside. There is supposed to be a way to do this online. Your website is not allowing me to do so. I cannot go to the office, because it is closed. So since the office is closed and your website is unnavigable. Thank you for making this so convenient.
I want to make an appointment Please
Are you guys currently open during the current apocalypse?
I'd like to make an appointment, can I do this on line
Incredibly rude and talked to me as if i was an idiot and was told ' have no idea what you're talking about'. Okay, so can we please teach them some basic manners?!?!? Your tone is important too!
Is the Modesto CA office open during construction
I would like to make an appointment nobody answers your phone please call me back
I have called numerous times. Always the same recording. I need to make an appointment to set up my benefits but no where does your answering machine ask about that? How do I make an appointment?
Can i come pick uo my son s.s. card he's 18 he dont have id but his collage id and birthcertic
Would like to make a appointment to get a duplicate Social Security Card. I need it to get a upgraded Drivers for the Airlines.
My sister recently died and I've been raising her daughter for the last few years. I don't have her SS card or birth certificate but was told I needed to apply for benifits for my neice seeing as she's only 13. I have my sister's death cert what else will I need to start the process.
This was one of the worst experiences in a long while. I went to the Modesto Office to change my name after getting married. The staff was rude from the moment I walked through the door. Everone I encountered was awful. Thank goodness this isn’t a place I need to go often. Maybe some professional development and/or people skills would help.
Unbelievable! My daughter is returning from a deployment overseas and needs to get a Social Security card for her daughter, who was born in Australia. I tried to make an appointment for her to do this at the local office but was told they do not schedule appointments for new cards; it is on a walk-in basis only. How stupid! She has a young baby and must wait 'her turn' so she can do what is required by law. What happened to serving those who serve our country?
phone service is limited, Very bad, on line service locked me out on first try? says too many attempts. NO ! first attempt, crazy system.