SSA Issues Name Change Directive

March 10, 2010

Author: Catherine M. Callery (Kate) | Louise M. Tarantino

As only a bureaucracy the size of the Social Security Administration (SSA) can manage, it has recently issued POMS instruction that covers almost every imaginable scenario when a person might change his or her name, and needs to have that name change carryover to a Social Security account.

The link below is to the new policy instructions, POMS RM 10212, issued in February 2010, on name changes including name changes based on same sex marriages (including marriages in Canada and other countries), civil unions, domestic partnership, divorces, dissolutions or annulments.

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/public/reference.nsf/links/02222010050622PM