Tips on dealing with the regional SSA office in Manila

Yellowtail · June 28, 2023

I retired while living in Thailand and had no issue getting my SS.

gamb00ler · July 6, 2023

On 6/28/2023 at 9:38 PM, Yellowtail said:

I retired while living in Thailand and had no issue getting my SS.

FBU Manila seems competent enough to handle the plain vanilla retirement benefit application. However, any time an application requires more complex processing they seem to veer into the ditch and seldom regain control and return to the correct path by themselves.

SSA overall has batted .000 on both my wife's and my original applications. Now we both have to hope that our applications to switch benefits don't meet a similar fate. FBU Manila should be up to our upcoming applications because they are both plain vanilla.

Edited July 6, 2023 by gamb00ler

TwentyBaht · August 10, 2023

Just as information, I accessed the Manila FBU website and used the Inquiry Form to make an address change. From the dropdown menu on top I selected change of address and once I entered my name and birthdate and last four digits of SS my old address information was already preloaded when the mouse hovered over it. I entered my new address in the additional information box. After completion and submitting a notice showed to allow 15 days for response. And today, just two days later, I got an email that my records had been updated with the new address. I was pleasantly surprised. Quite easy to do.

Yellowtail · August 10, 2023

Yeah, not sure what the complaints are about, the Manila SSA office wasreally helpful getting my and my son's benefits.

Actually easier to work with than my office in the US.

gamb00ler · August 10, 2023

28 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yeah, not sure what the complaints are about

I gave plenty of details in my posts about issues with Manila..... and you're still not sure... hmmmm.

Would you like to read all the emails between Manila and I?

Edited August 10, 2023 by gamb00ler

Yellowtail · August 10, 2023

2 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

I gave plenty of details in my posts about issues with Manila..... and you're still not sure... hmmmm.

Would you like to read all the emails between Manila and I?

Sure, scan them and post them up, I'll have a look.

gamb00ler · August 10, 2023

9 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Sure, scan them and post them up, I'll have a look.

Apparently you've never heard of rhetorical questions.

I seriously doubt that another opportunity to understand why others have issues with Manila will change your views and prompt you to make a useful contribution.

Edited August 10, 2023 by gamb00ler

Thailandbuckeye · Tuesday at 04:38 AM

I have used the drop down menu in the past but I can’t seem to find it on their website. Not sure if it’s no longer available or I just can’t find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks TB

Pib · Tuesday at 06:53 AM

2 hours ago, Thailandbuckeye said:

I have used the drop down menu in the past but I can’t seem to find it on their website. Not sure if it’s no longer available or I just can’t find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks TB

No longer available. They are back to using email versus the pull down menu which basically created an email to them with the necessary info they needed like your name, address, birthdate, SSN, etc.

Thailandbuckeye · Tuesday at 01:21 PM

Thanks, I sort of thought so but I appreciate the confirmation.

exant · 2024-10-10T14:53:58Z

Mr Omalley the NEW Chairman of SSA.GOV need your help and ask feed back from USA citizens facing trouble with self promoted from FBU to SSA.GOV Manila promoted agents

in charge of ASIA from Australia to China over a metal desk buried inside a USA Embassy in

Manila beginning 2017. Let me be clear the USA State Department foreign locations in every country in ASIA was in charge of SSA.GOV on a local country face to face passport secured identification of USA SSA.GOV forms application. The USA Embassy ACS division offered USD direct Treasury checks delivery in person every month before Manila FBU was promoted to be in command and control of USA citizens living in ASIA froma single metal desk inside the USA Embassy in Manila.... Great idea of SSA International to farm out the paper chase to new untrained SSA.GOV agents starting 2017 and many USA citizens have complained bitterly over extensive delays and or no reply failure of fiduciary duties intercepted delayed by the Manila FBU dedicated SSA.GOV applications....

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It is a problem and difficult to digest the cost savings of the SSA.GOV International Operations pay roll expense account confiscated from our USD tax flooding a metal desk in Manila command and control of ASIA, from Australia to China...

Reasons? some foreign SSA beneficiary remain silent...

The majority of USA citizens have bypassed Manila and use their friends and relatives and pre- paid mail forwarding services located inside USA phone numbers... There fore do not give a ??? about Manila FBU SSA.GOV inquisitive scattered delayed process of paper driven postal delivered fiduciary duties.

Any person inside the USA with a business card printed SSA.GOV name and number is not interrogated not inspected not questioned about SSA.GOV payments inside the USA but this is not true living inside a foreign government demanded banking, passport verification, every 90 days Why is there MANILA FBU SSA.GOV interception, inspections to generate MANILA pay checks for USA SSA.GOV customer service delays..

what is a fact that USA citizens are already under the command and control of foreign country governments Immigration because the USA passport is good only for a 90 day temporary visa...

BUT inside the USA just print your name and SSA.GOV number on a business card that has no bio metrics, no finger print, no photo identity, no integrated circuit chip, no laser holographic, no demanded inspections every 90 days and go empty or apply for a bank account inside the USA .

The argument is it is 10 times more security scanning of a USA citizen by a foreign government and zero security scanning inside the USA so the news is never give your name and your SSA number to strange people only give it on job applications and medical services and et all...

But wait there is no medical services in a foreign country Medicare is void dead the money is silently pocketed at SSA.GOV International.

Ffurther more your bank account demands a valid passport inspection of your identity periodically under foreign government Immigration and financial banking networks describing your deposits and withdrawals security monitored by your foreign phone...

Where is the BEEF? Why pay Manila for services to deposit inside your bio metrics passport secured foreign bank account delivered by the USA Treasury

supervised under foreign Immigration and Financial networks and your foreign Immigration phone registered police monitored by the government...

Another issue is the licking of stamp's and post mailing 71xx forms to Pennsylvania paid agents metal desk collection to prove you are alive but rarely acknowledged delivery after ritual expenses.. What is real fact you are dead as your body parts are examined by the foreign government police who are trained and ordered to report USA Embassy from your USA passport you are dead...

Take it or leave it, 1776 cry for assembly and to push and deliver to the new SSA.GOV Chairman Mr Omalley, SSA.GOV old goat board of directors facts of living outside the USA collecting SSA.GOV Benefits. is a very high secured accountable process not the same sloppy money delivery applied to a SSA.GOV pick up business card with name and number used inside the USA borders.

The SSA.GOV is scheduled out of money 2033 because of OLD GOAT board of directors unaware of life changes over the past 70 years... Mr. Omalley declared he has a difficult job and needs help how to distribute your SSA.GOV Benefits over extended time to USA SSA benefits retired citizens... You can help and write your suggestions to Mr Omalley / SSA.GOV board of directors

It is Mr Omalley who expanded the use of internet reduction of sloppy wasted additional pay check, expenses, delays, waste generating paper work alternatives such as Microsoft TEAMS secured and LOGIN.GOV secured and MySSA accounts that are a step in the right directions...

However these tools are ignored by the OLD GOAT paper chase system and are ineeded and should be applied at all foreign country retired USA citizens to reduce paper work filed forms and dead or alive reports licking stamps... The MAIN CENTRAL PROBLEM IS ZERO FEED BACK FROM USA CITIZENS who lost the spirit of 1776 regards SSA.GOV fight for survival..

What is the problem ALL THESE INTERNET TOOLS ARE LOCKED BLOCKED UNLESS YOU FAKE OR FORGE A USA ADDRESS AND USA PHONE NUMBER ON TOP OF YOUR 2 STEP LOGIN.GOV VERIFICATION ACCOUNT DEMANDED TO ENTER MySSA

THIS IS THE MESSAGE BUT NOT AVAILABLE IN FOREIGN COUNTRY USING FOREIGN COUNTRY IMMIGRATION REGISTERED PASSPORT ADDRESS AND FOREIGN PHONE NUMBER

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