Can I email documents to Social Security?
Can I email documents to Social Security?
You may call the Social Security Electronic Records Express Help Desk at 1-or send them an email at electronic-records-express@ssa.gov, or you should contact the office where you are sending the document or the office that requested the information. Occasionally an uploaded document will not process.
What are e records?
An electronic record is information recorded by a computer that is produced or. received in the initiation, conduct or completion of an agency or individual activity. Examples of electronic records include: e-mail messages, word- processed documents, electronic spreadsheets, digital images and databases.
What are the types of records?
Types of records
- Correspondence records. Correspondence records may be created inside the office or may be received from outside the office.
- Accounting records. The records relating to financial transactions are known as financial records.
- Legal records.
- Personnel records.
- Progress records.
- Miscellaneous records.
How are electronic records stored?
Electronic records should be organized and stored in folders and sub-folders, which are designed to group related records pertaining to specific business activities or subjects. Folders must be created to store groups of related records. Unrelated records should not be stored in these folders.
How many types of electronic records are available?
Examples of electronic records include: emails, websites, Word/Excel documents, digital purchase receipts, databases, text messages, social media postings, and information stored on SharePoint sites and content management systems (Catalyst, Slack, DropBox, etc.).
What records should be kept?
How long should you keep documents?
- Store permanently: tax returns, major financial records.
- Store 3–7 years: supporting tax documentation.
- Store 1 year: regular statements, pay stubs.
- Keep for 1 month: utility bills, deposits and withdrawal records.
- Safeguard your information.
- Guard your financial accounts.
What are operational records?
Operational Records: Records necessary to implement administrative policies, procedures, and operations. The operational value is the usefulness of a record in the conduct of an organization’s business. Examples include mandates, procedural records, or records that give direction.
How do you ensure records are accurate?
Principles of Good Record Keeping
- Be factual, consistent and accurate;
- Be updated as soon as possible after any recordable event;
- Provide current information on the care and condition of the patient;
- Be documented clearly in such a way that the text cannot be erased;
