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Social Security Phone Number

800-772-1213 · 客户服务

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Social Security Live Chat

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Recent reasons customers contacted Social Security:

Can't wait on hold due to meds for mouth tooth infection

Returning call, have horrible mouth*tooth infection

My name is Michael Huff and my social security check was only ***.** for the very first...

I need to see if I'll be getting a regular full payment for February I had a pack of pa...

I’m tryna find out my appeal date so I can’t start receiving my my payments

New passport apppointment

I cannot log into my SSA.gov account. It keeps giving me the message "We cannot process...

My name is Lonnie (Lonny) William Spencer. My wife, Sandra K. Spencer, has dementia. Sh...

Need to confirm when I will start receiving benefits based upon by own earnings

Need service , waiting too long for Ssa

I need to speak with a customer representative about benefits

I forgot my log in and my email account.

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Social Security contact information - compared

Above are our top recommendations for how to contact Social Security, including their top phone number and live chat options. Below you can compare and contrast the 4 ways to contact Social Security by looking at which ones are the fastest and which ones other customers recommend the most for solving Social Security customer service issues as reported to us by the 50 million or so customers that come to GetHuman each year and share their experiences. You can contact Social Security across the following mediums: Phone, Web.

Phone number / contact	Wait	Votes
800-772-1213 客户服务	38分钟	264
800-269-0271 欺诈识别	2分钟	1732
Online Help 客户服务	<2小时	1865
410-965-9334 国际客户服务	18分钟	920

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