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Is Social Security (SSA) down?

Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.

What's broken? (optional)
Is it just me?
No problems detected

Live diagnosis

Is it just me?

Tests ssa.gov from your browser and compares it with our checks, the official status, and user reports.

Your browser → ssa.gov—
Your browser → us—
Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsAll clear · Near baseline

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Live outage map

No reports in the last 24 hours.

Dots are whole states, provinces or countries, never exact locations. We never store IP addresses, and places with fewer than 3 reports are not shown. Updates every minute.

User reports

0

Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.

Our checks

Reaching it

Last check reached it in 287 ms · 9 min ago.

Reports and checks

Reports compared with the typical volume, with check latency and failures overlaid10465 ms04:0010:0016:0021:4503:45
ReportsTypical baselineCheck latencyFailed checkTimes in UTC
Numbers behind the chart
Time (UTC)ReportsBaselineLatencyFailed checks
01:1500.0199 ms0
01:3000.0293 ms0
01:4500.077 ms0
02:0000.0157 ms0
02:1500.0317 ms0
02:3000.0127 ms0
02:4500.0443 ms0
03:0000.097 ms0
03:1500.0465 ms0
03:3000.0326 ms0

Reliability

Score 100/100 · grade A

100%Uptime · 30 days
100%Uptime · 90 days
0 / 0Outages · 30 / 90 days
—Average outage

90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 1 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.

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Past outages

No outages on record for Social Security (SSA) yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.

All Social Security (SSA) outages · Every recent outage

Having trouble with Social Security (SSA)?

One report per service every 10 minutes from this network. No account.

What's broken? (optional)

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Questions

Is Social Security (SSA) down right now?

Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.

Social Security (SSA) not working for me but the status is fine. What now?

If Social Security (SSA) is not working only for you, it is usually local: try a different browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. If lots of people report it here at the same time, the problem is on Social Security (SSA)'s side.

How does Damn is it down decide Social Security (SSA)'s status?

Three signals. Anonymous reports are compared with the usual volume for this hour. HTTP checks from Cloudflare have to fail twice in a row before we call our side down. When the vendor publishes a status JSON feed, that incident level is included too.

How often is Social Security (SSA) checked?

About every five minutes. The cron runs each minute and rotates through the catalog, so a full pass takes a few minutes.