MonicaSobarzo

= Welcome to Monica's page on being = = a Claim Representative = = for Social Security! =

__** WHAT DO THEY DO?! **__ Social secuirty provides income for families who deal with death, retirement, or disablity, which is an average of one family out of four. Some requirements are excpected to earn money from social security: Depending where you work as a claim representative, your skills in customer service is important. you might tend to find your self in stressful situations, high emotions, enraged customers, or stressful sitautions may occur therefore your customer skills are important. [] [] [] Your salary depends on your work location. They can make any where from $38k to $77k as a claim representative, other salaries just depend on what you do in social security. []
 * 1) Age – individuals must be 62 years old or older to receive retirement benefits
 * 2) Length of employment – individuals must have worked for at least 40 quarters (over the life of their work experience) and paid into Social Security through payroll deductions (or on their own if self-employed)
 * 3) There is no requirement to be a US citizen
 * 4) Disability benefits eligibility is based upon a determination by the Social Security system along with the above listed qualifications (except for disability applicants under the age of 18).
 * HOW MUCH DO THEY MAKE? **

You must have at least a high school diploma. College degree in mathematical and deductive reasoning skills, as well as business and social/psychological background will help you be hired or promoted at a faster pase. []
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WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS CAREER?!
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INTERVIEW:
Name of person interviewing: Barbara Sobarzo What profession is the person in: Social insurance claim representative for Social Security. Do they like their job? Yes, for the most part. Positives about their job? Helping other people, good pay, benefits, and good family friendly agency. Negatives of the job? The Labor intensive work, high volume case load, dealing with people in high stress or emotional state of mind, and having to work with guidelines or parameters without sufficient ability to make improvements. What are their job roles and title? Interview claimants for eligibility for disability programs, gather documentation to support the case and put them to pay and review cases for continuing eligibility, approve or deny non medical appeals and other payments. Out of college/training that you had to go through, what was the most useful and what was the least useful skills/classes/etc. that you were required to accomplish? Most useful- psychology, foreign language, social work, public speaking, English comp, and general business. Math was somewhat less useful. How much do you make a week? A year? Between 40,000 – 75,000 per year. Do you find it easy or hard to live off your salary? Easily to live off. Are you requires to continue training/progressing in your education to remain competitive and capable to do your job? If so, what sort of continual training is requires? I am always training almost every week. We are Trained on the latest changes in the law and its application to our programs and system applications, etc. Do you find your field in high demand (competitive), not enough well qualified persons, or are their two many people within your field? There is not enough well qualified people, where loosing many people because of the baby boomer age which is retiring now. If you could go back to college and re-do your career choice, would you? Why? If I could go back to college and re-do my career choice I might further my foreign language studies and United Nations and/or go into a field that would include working with children and photography and would have liked to go into the field of psychology or a detective. What other careers can relate to your job? Career social services and somewhat of investigator, and etc. If someone were to go right out of college to be a claim representative would it be easy starting off? No, they training is extensive and can feel at times overwhelming takes a minimum of 3-5 years to start feeling confident. An in the application of the knowledge required for the job it is on going learning and training process.