TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Social Security benefits statements — which officials stopped mailing to cut costs — will again be sent out to selected age groups.
Annual statements will begin being sent again next month to people 60 and older who are not yet receiving benefits, Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. One-time mailings to 25-year-old workers introducing them to the entitlement program and their potential benefits will begin being sent by the end of the year, the letter says.
Despite that, the bulk of the 150 million people who had received the statements will not, instead being directed to a website the Social Security Administration plans to open in the coming months to allow access to benefit estimates. In Astrue's letter, dated Friday, he also says people who are unable to access the Internet or who have other reasons for needing a paper statement will be able to request one.
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