Check whether retirement, survivors, or disability insurance can be paid outside the United States
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- List citizenship, the benefit type, the date the person left the United States, and any later return, using only the dates the lawyer supplies.
- What the lawyer must review
- The Social Security payments-abroad page says the agency generally cannot pay Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance to noncitizens after their sixth calendar month outside the United States, subject to exceptions on that page. Absence is not counted until the person has been outside for 30 days in a row, and a return for any part of one day before those 30 days stops the count. The page on communicating changes says to report leaving the United States for more than 30 days. That page does not state the six-month rule. The payments-abroad page that was opened does not state an SSI rule.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Consider narrowly defined preparation support after confirming the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Trace every relied-on figure to its source, confirm dates and assumptions, and independently recalculate totals or derived amounts.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.