Social Security Administration

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a U.S. federal agency that administers Social Security programs including retirement, disability (SSDI), and survivor benefits. SSA's Developer Support portal provides APIs for locating field offices and resident stations, accessing open data on OASDI beneficiary statistics, and verifying Social Security Numbers through the eCBSV program.

Social Security Administration publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Field Offices API, Resident Stations API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Social Security, Government API, Open Data, and OASDI.

The Social Security Administration catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Social Security Administration’s developer surface includes code examples and 16 more developer resources.

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28.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts

Federal Government Social SecurityGovernment APIOpen DataOASDIDisability BenefitsRetirement Benefits

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Composite quality — 28.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SSA OASDI Open Data API

Provides statistics on Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) beneficiaries including counts by state, total population data, and benefit payment statistics. Avail...

SSA eCBSV Verification API

The Electronic Consent Based SSN Verification (eCBSV) Service allows financial institutions to verify that a provided Social Security Number, name, and date of birth match SSA r...

Social Security Administration Field Offices API

Query SSA Field Office locations and hours

Social Security Administration Resident Stations API

Query SSA Resident Station locations and hours

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

SSA Field Office Address Field Offices API

OPEN COLLECTION

SSA Field Office Address Field Offices Resident Stations API

OPEN COLLECTION

SSA Field Office Address API

OPEN COLLECTION

SSA Resident Station Address API

OPEN COLLECTION

Social Security Administration API pricing

Not yet checked against Social Security Administration's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Social Security Administration's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Social Security Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Social Security Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Social Security Administration

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Social Security Administration Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ssa Context

20 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Social Security Administration — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Social Security Administration — ssa rules

8 rules · 4 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

SSA Field Office

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SSA Resident Station

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Ssa Office Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Ssa Field Office Query Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Social Security Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Social Security Administration Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Open Data Portal

Open Data Portal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Examples

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Open Data Inventory

Open Data Inventory

Data.gov Organization

Data.gov Organization

Source (apis.yml)

aid: social-security-administration
name: Social Security Administration
description: The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a U.S. federal agency that administers Social Security programs including
  retirement, disability (SSDI), and survivor benefits. SSA's Developer Support portal provides APIs for locating field offices
  and resident stations, accessing open data on OASDI beneficiary statistics, and verifying Social Security Numbers through
  the eCBSV program.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/social-security-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/social-security-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Federal Government
- Social Security
- Government API
- Open Data
- OASDI
- Disability Benefits
- Retirement Benefits
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Social Security
- Government API
- Open Data
- OASDI
- Disability Benefits
- Retirement Benefits
- Federal-Government
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: social-security-administration:oasdi-data-api
  name: SSA OASDI Open Data API
  description: Provides statistics on Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) beneficiaries including counts
    by state, total population data, and benefit payment statistics. Available through SSA's open data portal and Esri Feature
    Services.
  humanURL: https://www.ssa.gov/data/OASDIBeneficiariesbyState.htm
  tags:
  - OASDI
  - Beneficiary Statistics
  - Open Data
  - Benefits Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/data/OASDIBeneficiariesbyState.htm
  - type: Open Data Portal
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/data/
- aid: social-security-administration:ecbsv-api
  name: SSA eCBSV Verification API
  description: The Electronic Consent Based SSN Verification (eCBSV) Service allows financial institutions to verify that
    a provided Social Security Number, name, and date of birth match SSA records, with consent from the individual. Access
    is restricted to eligible financial institutions.
  humanURL: https://www.ssa.gov/dataexchange/eCBSV/
  tags:
  - SSN Verification
  - Identity Verification
  - Financial Services
  - Consent Based
  tags_raw:
  - SSN Verification
  - Identity Verification
  - Financial Services
  - Consent Based
  - Financial-Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/dataexchange/eCBSV/technical_information.html
  - type: CBSV Web Service
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/cbsv/webservice.html
- aid: social-security-administration:social-security-administration-field-offices-api
  name: Social Security Administration Field Offices API
  description: Query SSA Field Office locations and hours
  humanURL: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/FO_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  tags:
  - Field Offices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/social-security-administration-field-offices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/FO_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  - type: ArcGIS Feature Service
    url: https://services6.arcgis.com/zFiipv75rloRP5N4/ArcGIS/rest/services/Office_Points/FeatureServer/1
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/RS_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  - type: ArcGIS Feature Service
    url: https://services6.arcgis.com/zFiipv75rloRP5N4/arcgis/rest/services/SSA_Resident_Station_Information/FeatureServer
- aid: social-security-administration:social-security-administration-resident-stations-api
  name: Social Security Administration Resident Stations API
  description: Query SSA Resident Station locations and hours
  humanURL: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/FO_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  tags:
  - Resident Stations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/social-security-administration-resident-stations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/FO_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  - type: ArcGIS Feature Service
    url: https://services6.arcgis.com/zFiipv75rloRP5N4/ArcGIS/rest/services/Office_Points/FeatureServer/1
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/api/RS_Address_Data_AppDevs.htm
  - type: ArcGIS Feature Service
    url: https://services6.arcgis.com/zFiipv75rloRP5N4/arcgis/rest/services/SSA_Resident_Station_Information/FeatureServer
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/social-security-administration-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/social-security-administration-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/social-security-administration-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/social-security-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/social-security-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ssa
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ssa.gov/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.ssa.gov/developer/
- type: Open Data Portal
  url: https://www.ssa.gov/data/
- type: Open Data Inventory
  url: https://www.ssa.gov/data/Open-Data-Inventory-Information.html
- type: Data.gov Organization
  url: https://catalog.data.gov/organization/ssa-gov
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/ssa-field-office-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/ssa-resident-station-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/ssa-office-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/ssa-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ssa-vocabulary.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/ssa-field-office-query-example.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Social Security Administration API — frequently asked questions

Does Social Security Administration have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Social Security Administration, including SSA OASDI Open Data API, SSA eCBSV Verification API and Social Security Administration Field Offices API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Social Security Administration API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Social Security Administration, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Social Security Administration API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Social Security Administration, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Social Security Administration API ready for AI agents?

Social Security Administration has a Kin Score of 28.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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