I am having difficulty with this form (SSA 7162). The system is broken so I emailed my Senator (copied below) please feel free to copy and email your Senator and keep our fingers crossed.
Subj: Problem: SSAs Archaic System for Form 7162
Dear Senator Rosen, I am a Nevada absentee voter temporarily living overseas. I am 70 years old and on Social Security. The SSA mails out a form to those overseas receiving benefits which must be returned to them or their benefits are jeopardized. The problem is they only allow returning it to their PO Box so that rules out using tracking services such as FedEx or DHL. I sent mine on Nov 23rd via EMS mail but that tracking stopped after it left Thailand and was not picked up by USPS. This is an important form to get returned or they cut you off. Why can't SSA have a normal street address to return these forms instead of a PO Box? Also we have no way of knowing if it was received. So as backup I have also sent another 7162 to them by regular airmail from Thailand. Why can't they send us a secure message in 'My Social Security' letting us know that it was recveived. I called the SSA office in Reno (where I applied for benefits) and the Rep did not even know what that form was. The Rep gave me another number in Wilkes Barre PA (where the form goes) but I called there and they said it was the wrong office. Please help us with this nightmare bureaucracy. Thank you
