What is Form SSA-827?
Authorizes medical, educational and other sources to release a person's records to Social Security and the State disability determination services, so SSA can decide a disability claim or whether the person can manage benefits. It is valid for 12 months from the date it's signed in ink.
What’s on Form SSA-827
The 2024 edition has 2 pages. FileIt asks for it in 3 parts:
- Whose records to be disclosedClaimant
- Who signs, and their addressClaimant
- Witness contact details (optional)Claimant
Fill out Form SSA-827 online with FileIt
- Pick the person. Choose someone from People and FileIt fills in their name, date of birth, address and other details it already knows.
- Answer plain-language questions. One part of the form at a time, with the official help text beside each question — 17 fields in all. Your answers save as you go.
- Check the live preview. Watch your answers land on the real Social Security Administration (SSA) form, and let FileIt do any worksheet arithmetic.
- Generate the official PDF. FileIt prints your answers into the agency’s own PDF and files it in that person’s folder in your vault.
FileIt fills the form — it never files or submits anything for you. Deliver the finished form to whoever asked for it, the way the form’s instructions say.
Start Form SSA-827 now — it’s freeOfficial sources
- Blank form (PDF), published by Social Security Administration (SSA): https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-827.pdf
- Official instructions and guidance: https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-827.pdf
- Edition shown on this page: Form SSA-827 (06-2024) UF (OMB No. 0960-0623) (checked 2026-09-28).
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