How Do I Close My Social Security Claim?
If you have filed a Social Security claim and no longer wish to proceed with the claim, you have the option to close out the claim you have filed. It is important that you go about this process carefully so that you can reopen the claim at a later date if needed.
- Determine the reason that you are closing out a Social Security claim. If the reason is that you are now going to return to work, then it is important that you have a letter from a physician stating that you are clear to go back to work. If you are closing out the claim due to lack of sufficient evidence to file a claim, you should have a lawyer draft a paper stating this reason.
- Gather the necessary paperwork form a physician lawyer or both. You want to turn in this paperwork when you request to close-out the claim so that you are eligible to re-file a claim with Social Security later on if you need to.
- Visit the local Social Security office where you originally filed a claim and ask to speak to an adjudicator.
- You will be given a number and asked to have a seat until the number assigned to you is called.
- Wait for the number you have been assigned to be called so that you can speak to an adjudicator to discuss the Social Security claim you have filed.
- Let the adjudicator know that you would like to close the claim that you have filed, and provide the adjudicator with the paperwork from a doctor or lawyer that states the reason that you are canceling the claim that has been filed with the Social Security Administration.