SSA comments

[Scottie Mom]

5. Can you do Direct Deposit?

I now check my bank account online every month to see if my check has arrived. So far, so good!

I would advise that for everyone who gets a SSA check. I used to have it mailed to me and one check was stolen and cashed at a liquor store. I was charged with an "over-payment" because the SSA issued me a replacement check. But I immediately filed an appeal. So, I get my full SSA check without a deduction for the "over-payment" because the SSA regs call for this. Still have not heard from the SSA re the appeal. At the time the SSA check was stolen, I was confined to bed with a fractured right femur and could not walk down the stairs of my home or drive. Sure, I walked down the stairs and got into my car, drove to a liquor store and PRINTED my name as the endorsement on the SSA check! I am of the age when we learned cursive writing at school. I have a very distinctive signature.

So, immediately thereafter, I used a separate, personal bank account for direct deposit of my SSA check.