Check out Social Security’s online tools

While spending time with your mom on Sunday, Mother’s Day, you can help her quickly and easily sign up for a free, online my Social Security account. Signing up for an account will give mom the tools she needs to stay on top of her Social Security benefits. At socialsecurity.gov/myaccount, she can do a number of things.

If she does not receive benefits, she can:

• Request a replacement Social Security card if she meets certain requirements;

• Check the status of her application or appeal.

Get her Social Security Statement, to review:

• Estimates of her future retirement, disability and survivors benefits.

• Her earnings once a year to verify the amounts posted are correct.

• The estimated Social Security and Medicare taxes she’s paid.

If she does receive benefits, she can:

• Request a replacement Social Security card if she meets certain requirements.

• Report her wages if she works and receives Disability Insurance benefits.

• Get her benefit verification letter.

• Check her benefit and payment information and her earnings record.

• Change her address and phone number.

• Start or change direct deposit of her benefit pay- ment.

• Request a replacement Medicare card.

• Get a replacement SSA1099 or SSA-1042S for tax season.