Tomorrow, mom is going to go to Vietnam to visit her other half of the family. She has not visit them for over 5 years now. She has planned to go back in 2005 but then my step father fell ill. She has been looking forward to this trip for quite a while.
I've had the travel agent notify the airline to help her transfer between terminals and provide wheel chair service as needed. I hope this will work out.
Check list: Medication for 1 month, visa, passport...
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Signup for Social Security (SS) direct deposit
You would think this is pretty simple eh...
Go to http://www.socialsecurity.gov/
Hunt around a bit to find the menu Question?->Checks and Payments->Direct Deposit
Found form 1199A. It said to fill it out then take it to your financial institution.
Filled form - no problem - Took it to mom's local Credit Union and here's where it gets dicey.
The form's instruction said "Financial institution should refer to Green Book for further instructions". It also said "The financial institution should mail the completed form to the Government Agency Identified".
The lady at the credit union did neither. She filled out the bank section 3 info then handed it back to mom. She said "we don't do direct deposit request" you have to do it! She did not fill in section 2, the government agency address that mom should mail the form to.
No problem, I can do that. I searched the web for the "Green Book" and found it at http://fms.treas.gov/greenbook/enroll/enroll-d4.html
It said to verify in section 2 "federal agency name and address" because this is where most errors occur. I followed contact list link. The contact list has misspelled link back to www.socialsecurity.gov where I searched in vain for several hours for an address to send in form 1199A. I gave up.
There is the telephone alternative.
I tried it and, after navigating through complicated button, voice and more button menus, it couldn't find mom's record. I gave up again.
There is the online alternative.
I did an online request for mom. She is now waiting for a letter from the SS office with instruction to create her online account. With this, she should be able to do an online enrollment. We'll see...
This is not good.
Go to http://www.socialsecurity.gov/
Hunt around a bit to find the menu Question?->Checks and Payments->Direct Deposit
Found form 1199A. It said to fill it out then take it to your financial institution.
Filled form - no problem - Took it to mom's local Credit Union and here's where it gets dicey.
The form's instruction said "Financial institution should refer to Green Book for further instructions". It also said "The financial institution should mail the completed form to the Government Agency Identified".
The lady at the credit union did neither. She filled out the bank section 3 info then handed it back to mom. She said "we don't do direct deposit request" you have to do it! She did not fill in section 2, the government agency address that mom should mail the form to.
No problem, I can do that. I searched the web for the "Green Book" and found it at http://fms.treas.gov/greenbook/enroll/enroll-d4.html
It said to verify in section 2 "federal agency name and address" because this is where most errors occur. I followed contact list link. The contact list has misspelled link back to www.socialsecurity.gov where I searched in vain for several hours for an address to send in form 1199A. I gave up.
There is the telephone alternative.
I tried it and, after navigating through complicated button, voice and more button menus, it couldn't find mom's record. I gave up again.
There is the online alternative.
I did an online request for mom. She is now waiting for a letter from the SS office with instruction to create her online account. With this, she should be able to do an online enrollment. We'll see...
This is not good.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)