The Social Security Administration (SSA) began phasing out mailed statements to most workers in 2011 to save an estimated $70 million a year. Instead, the agency directed workers to track their future benefits online using a secure website.
Congress, however, passed a bill last year requiring the SSA to resume mailing the statements.
The agency said Tuesday that many workers will now start receiving paper statements in the mail every five years, starting a few months before their 25th birthday. Once workers reach 60 they will get them every year.
If you have not been keeping track of your benefits by logging on to www.ssa.gov, you now have the opportunity to check via the paper statement. I noticed that there were two years reporting zero income on my statement. I know darn well I paid taxes those years. Without checking what had been reported on my record, I never would have been able to correct this error.
Payments from the SSA are one part of your retirement; please make sure your records are correct.

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