Accessing social security administration

yugpurush45 · Post by **yugpurush45** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:30 pm

I am not able to access social security administration http://www.ssa.gov from India. I have made several attempts. If anyone is able to then please post and let me now what network (airtel, reliance, bsnl etc) you are using. Thanks. There is no problem accessing the site in USA.

yugpurush

r2i_asif · Post by **r2i_asif** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:10 pm

It could be that the access is blocked from non-US IP addrs (I don't know if that's the case). If you work for a US company, try accessing the website after logging into a US system -- over VPN etc.

-Asif

yugpurush45 · Post by **yugpurush45** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:03 am

>It could be that the access is blocked from non-US IP addrs (I don't know if that's the case<

Thank you Asif for replying. But that is what I am trying to verify. There are millions of americans living overseas and getting social security benefits and must use the site. Can you access: www.ssa.gov from banglore?. I will really appreciate the reply.

Yugpurush

r2i_asif · Post by **r2i_asif** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:49 am

Unfortunately, I can't check that as I am in the US now.

-Asif

sftrade · Post by **sftrade** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:30 am

maybe the Indian ISP could be blocking access to these sites. Can you access other .gov sites ?

rudra · Post by **rudra** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:51 am

yugpurush45;40315I am not able to access social security administration http://www.ssa.gov from India. I have made several attempts. If anyone is able to then please post and let me now what network (airtel, reliance, bsnl etc) you are using. Thanks. There is no problem accessing the site in USA.

yugpurush[/quote]

You have to send your email to [email protected] in manila with your ssn number, name and the question. They will send forward it to appropriate authorities to reply back.

The person who replied me ...

ARMANDO C. ARAGON, JR.
Claims Examiner
Social Security Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
US Embassy Building
1131 Roxas Blvd., Ermita
0930 Manila, Philippines
Telephone: (632) 525-6572
Fax: (632) 522-1514

Here is how it got forwarded ...

===========================
From: ^SSAD VARO Manila
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:29 AM
To: Aragon, Armando
Subject: FW: initiating social securty

From: my emaiid@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:35 PM
To: ^SSAD VARO Manila
Subject: initiating social securty
============================================

dbs · Post by **dbs** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:49 pm

yugpurush45;40380>It could be that the access is blocked from non-US IP addrs (I don't know if that's the case<

Thank you Asif for replying. But that is what I am trying to verify. There are millions of americans living overseas and getting social security benefits and must use the site. Can you access: www.ssa.gov from banglore?. I will really appreciate the reply.

Yugpurush

I connected to http://www.ssa.gov from Noida. I could also access other links from the site. No problem. I did not try to logon, etc. as I do not have a SSN, never having lived in usa.

yugpurush45 · Post by **yugpurush45** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:05 pm

dbs,
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your effort to help me. Now if you will only tell me what network (BSNL, MTNL, RELIANCE......) you use to connect to the internet. My reliance network in Himachal (Dharamshala) does not allow access. It does allow access to other .gov sites like medicare etc. Waiting for your reply.

Yugpurush

saransh · Post by **saransh** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:51 pm

I was able to access the SSA site from Bangalore. I use sify.

Desi_by_Nature · Post by **Desi_by_Nature** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:03 pm

#1

the SSA runs their website on a mirror domain too:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/

see if you can access this one.