Beneficiaries to make Changes in Addresses

Beneficiaries to make Changes in Addresses

FSMSSA wishes to extend this announcement to all beneficiaries receiving benefits from the Social Security Program. Due to security reasons, the FSM Social Security Administration will be discontinuing the mailing of physical checks to overseas locations beginning April 2019. Therefore, beneficiaries residing outside of FSM must have a valid bank account to be used for benefit remittances. The program sincerely encourage ALL beneficiaries abroad and on the islands to abide with this recommendation in order to support security improvements. It must be a question raised to why the sudden change, yet due to incidents occurring with lost checks and more than that, FSMSSA intends to verify that the safest procedure is through bank direct deposits. This could also support the less use of paper for printed checks to thousands of beneficiaries. Moreover, the process is that you must have an active Savings or Checking Account. FSMSSA need your account information for confirmation then you could make the change. In doing so, our form had been sent out to all beneficiaries, it is as well posted on our website; www.fsmssa.fm. Please be informed that Joints accounts are applicable to only you and your spouse. On island beneficiaries are highly recommended to have accounts as much as possible. This change would really assist with systems expenses on its operations and a guaranteed timely payout to all beneficiaries and would highly shorten issues with physical checks. For further questions and comments, please contact us through e-mail or phone. Thank you.