SSA Earnings/Benefit Report (state, years, benefits, return)

[JAG_HRD]

SSA sends out a document of projected benefits about three months after one’s birthday. It lists yearly earnings going way back. The most recent one I received showed wildly incorrect earnings for 2007, about 50% more than on my W2! All the previous years listed are correct. It just so happens that our company switched payroll firms at our fiscal year end (September 30, 2007) and we ended up getting two W2’s for different amounts.

However, at least one other employee (there are only eight of us including the owners) who has bothered to look, has a similar error. So is this common? I got the form to send corrections to the SSA along with a copy of the correct W2 to cover myself.

My concern is that the SSA gets its info from the IRS and if the IRS has it wrong compared to how I filed, I will be toast! No one here seems to care.

[Bigbluelandrover]

I work for SSA. Take any proof to a local field office and your earnings record will be corrected. Cheers

[JAG_HRD]

I sent it all off to Maryland as the form stated, although there was a cover letter saying to send it to Salinas, CA but a return envelope to Maryland. 2 to 1 for Maryland.

Might drop by the Salinas office with a copy of the form.

Am I correct that the SSA gets the info from the IRS via W2'S? If not, then the error could be somewhere else but thankfully NOT at the IRS!

Thanks.

[Bigbluelandrover]

The IRS gets its info from employers. Then it is forwarded to SSA's database.

[JAG_HRD]

Now I am scared, really scared.