Where is the social security office located
Social Security Office closing
well Social Security offices nationwide
are closing their doors to help protect
some of their most at-risk clients from
the coronavirus but officials say that
they are still here to help
Fox Carolina's grace Runkle joins us
live in Greenville with services with
services still being offered exactly
something that's very helpful to folks
that need it grace exactly very helpful
they want to make sure that they can
still access these services like
applying for their Social Security but
not too long ago spoke with a man who
came up to the front doors here looked
at them saw there's a sign on them
saying that this is going to be closed
for the foreseeable future and although
they do have some options where you can
get business done over the phone or even
online he said he doesn't have a
computer and for him that's not an
option and he said when it comes to
seniors computers and then they just
don't compute so so far it's a little
bit of a transition for a lot of people
today and this man that we spoke to
worries that it's just gonna get worse
in terms of access for seniors but we do
want to tell you what they are offering
and so anyone who already has a point
meant scheduled with their local office
can expect a phone call that's either
going to be someone calling to
reschedule it to happen over the phone
or they're gonna be canceling that
appointment and employees are still
going to have appointments but like I
said those are going to be over the
phone and they're only going to be for
the most serious cases and here's what
qualifies as one of those dire need
benefit payments for example that's when
you have not received a payment that you
are scheduled to receive you can also
call about severe disability or terminal
illness cases and last dire Social
Security related decisions needed for
medicaid approval other than that they
would like you to use the website
ssa.gov to get any of your business done
over the next couple of weeks so that
the phones are freed up for the people
who need it for dire situations but we
do want to tell you that they're gonna
be calling from a private number so keep
that in mind and be on the lookout for
scanner scammers out there as you kind
of get calls from Social Security over
the next couple of days Ted
great tips grace hopefully folks heed
that warning thanks so much and of
course we'll be sure to check back
