{"id":812,"date":"2016-08-10T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/?p=812"},"modified":"2016-08-10T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:40:21","slug":"seniors-getting-locked-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/seniors-getting-locked-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Getting Locked Out of Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some seniors are being locked out of their Social Security account now for a new reason&#8230;they don&#8217;t text. Due to a new update in the system, seniors who don&#8217;t text may find themselves in a sticky situation if they need to make changes to their Social Security account.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Lobosco writes in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/05\/retirement\/social-security-texting\/index.html?iid=SF_LN\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">money.CNN.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a security practice most of us are familiar with. When you enter your username and password, a text message with a code is sent to your phone. You then enter that code on the website to get access to your account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the case of the Social Security website, a new code is required each time you log in because it expires after 10 minutes. So if you don&#8217;t have a cellphone that receives texts, you can no longer log in to your account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it won&#8217;t keep you from receiving benefits, it will affect your being able to change account information such as change of address, direct deposit details and requesting a replacement Social Security card.<\/p>\n<p>If you are uncomfortable with the texting features on your phone, your kids and\/or grandkids can teach you everything you need to know. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/05\/retirement\/social-security-texting\/index.html?iid=SF_LN\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some seniors are being locked out of their Social Security account now for a new reason&#8230;they don&#8217;t text. Due to a new update in the system, seniors who don&#8217;t text may find themselves in a sticky situation if they need to make changes to their Social Security account. Katie Lobosco writes in money.CNN.com\u00a0&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}