Changes Are Coming to How You Access Social Security’s Online Services

  Changes Are Coming to How You Access Social Security’s Online Services

We’re making changes to the way you access Social Security’s online services, including your personal my Social Security account. The changes will simplify your sign-in experience and align with federal authentication standards. At the same time, we’re continuing to provide safe and secure access to our online services.

If you created your my Social Security account before September 18, 2021, you will still be able to use your username and password to sign in. However, you will not be able to do so for much longer.

In the near future, all users will need to have an account with one of our two Credential Service Providers (CSP) – Login.gov or ID.me – to access your personal my Social Security account and other online services.

To learn more, read our press release. If you have an existing Login.gov or ID.me account, you do NOT need to create a new one. And, if you can access your personal my Social Security account through Login.gov or ID.me, you don’t need to take any action.

If you don’t have a Login.gov account

To avoid any disruptions in accessing Social Security’s online services you may want to transition your account now by signing in with your Social Security username. Our online instructions will guide you through the process of creating a new account with Login.gov. Once you successfully link your personal my Social Security account with your new Login.gov account, you’ll get a confirmation screen and have immediate access to our online services. In the future, you’ll sign in to your account with Login.gov and not your Social Security username.

Login.gov offers 24/7 customer phone and chat support to answer your questions.

We encourage you to make the transition to Login.gov or ID.me now before the username option goes away later this year.

You’ll find more helpful information here.

Please share these important upcoming changes with your family members, friends, and colleagues.

Reference: ssa.gov via NPMHU Local 317
 

USPS appoints a new historian

  USPS appoints a new historian

Stephen Kochersperger has been named USPS historian, a role he assumed on an acting basis in December.

He succeeds Jennifer Lynch, who retired last year.

Kochersperger began his USPS career more than 40 years ago, first as a clerk in Milesburg, PA, and then as postmaster of Julian, PA, where he served for 25 years.

In 2011, he became a writer/editor for the former Capital Metro Area. The next year, he joined the historian’s office at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC.

Kochersperger spearheaded two recent oral history projects: arranging interviews of employees with 50 or more years of service for the 50th anniversary of the Postal Service’s as creation an independent federal agency in 1971 and interviewing postal executives on how USPS handled delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

His master’s thesis was on the postal system’s role in American independence.

Kochersperger is a distant cousin of John Wanamaker, the 35th postmaster general, and is related to Charles Kochersperger, the defendant in an 1860 court case that led to the development of the Private Express Statutes, which guarantee the Postal Service’s exclusive right to carry letters for compensation.

“Postal history is in my blood, quite literally,” he said.

Reference: USPS via NPMHU Local 317
 

New NPMHU Organizing Webpage

  New NPMHU Organizing Webpage

We have created a new webpage to provide tools for Officers and Stewards to Organize new Members into the National Postal Mail Handlers Union.

This “Digital Organizing Toolkit” provides easy to follow steps to recruit new members into the NPMHU.

New Organizing Webpage Announcement (pdf)

Reference: www.npmhu.org via NPMHU Local 317