The Fort Myers Social Security Office and the Field Offices Around Southwest Florida

Which Social Security office serves a Fort Myers ZIP code?

For most of Lee County, the Executive Circle office. Social Security's office locator assigns each ZIP code it lists to one field office, and the Lee County ZIP codes below all go to the Fort Myers office, along with LaBelle in Hendry County. Assignments can change, so look up your own street address in the locator before you rely on a list.

The office the locator names handles the non-medical side of your claim, so it is the place to call about that part of a pending claim. You can apply online, by phone or at a field office.

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Visiting the Fort Myers Social Security Office on Executive Circle

The locator lists the Fort Myers field office at Suite 25, 4220 Executive Circle, Fort Myers, FL 33916, open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and closed on weekends. The phone number is 1-888-318-9114 and the fax is 1-833-795-0128. Hours and closures can change, so check the office's locator page before you go.

The locator's note for this office says a representative is available to take your call on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and it strongly encourages completing an application online and scheduling an appointment for your Social Security business, online or through the national number, 1-800-772-1213. Calling ahead can save a wasted trip, especially if you only need to drop off a document or ask about a letter.

Mail does not go to Executive Circle. The locator gives a Kansas City processing center as this office's mailing address: Social Security, NRC / FO 670, PO Box 416000, Kansas City, MO 64141. When you answer a notice, use the return address printed on that notice.

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What the field office handles and what Florida's disability division decides

The field office checks the eligibility points that have nothing to do with your health, such as age, work and earnings, marital status and Social Security coverage, then sends the case on for the medical decision, as Social Security's page on the disability determination process describes. The state agency usually asks your own doctors and clinics for records first and can schedule a consultative examination when they are unavailable or not enough.

In Florida that agency is the Division of Disability Determinations in the Florida Department of Health. It makes the medical decision, not the non-medical one, on Social Security disability and SSI claims and for Florida's Medically Needy program, and it also conducts the periodic continuing disability reviews of people already receiving benefits.

Reconsideration, the first appeal after a denial, generally must be requested within 60 days after you receive the denial, online, by phone, by mail or in person, and when the denial was medical the review goes back to the division. A hearing request after a reconsideration denial moves the case to a hearing office.

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Which hearing office takes a Fort Myers disability appeal

Social Security's hearing office list gives the Fort Myers hearing office the same address as the field office. That list, behind Social Security's hearing office locator, gives its address as Suite 25, 4220 Executive Circle, with phone (888) 462-1109 and hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and lists two field offices under it, Fort Myers and Naples. Appendix F of the agency's privacy notice for hearing records places Fort Myers, Naples and Port Charlotte under the Fort Myers hearing office, though it still prints an older Colonial Boulevard address for it.

Social Security's operations manual says hearing office jurisdiction is set by the claimant's residence address. You can ask, in a signed statement giving your reasons, for a transfer to another hearing office, and Social Security decides. A hearing can be in person, by agency video at a Social Security site, by phone, or by online video if you agree to it, and you can object in writing to a phone or agency video hearing within 30 days after you receive the notice of the ways you can attend, or later with good cause. The Notice of Hearing names the office and the format. Social Security's hearings manual also lets it reassign some cases to another hearing office to relieve a temporary workload imbalance or increase productivity, and the receiving office notifies you and your representative. Our Fort Myers disability lawyer page covers the hearing office and its neighbors in more detail, and our hearing office directory lists the rest.

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Naples, Port Charlotte and Belle Glade: the offices for Bonita Springs, Charlotte County and Clewiston

• Naples, Suite 1114, 2659 Professional Circle, Naples, FL 34119: 34134 and 34135 (Bonita Springs), 34102 to 34105, 34108 to 34110, 34112 to 34114, 34116, 34117, 34119 and 34120 (Naples), 34142 (Immokalee) and 34145 (Marco Island). Phone 1-888-294-0161. On the Fort Myers hearing office list.

• Port Charlotte, 4054 Beaver Lane, Port Charlotte, FL 33952: 33948, 33952 to 33954, 33980 and 33981 (Port Charlotte), 33950, 33982 and 33983 (Punta Gorda) and 34266 (Arcadia). Phone 1-877-405-0490.

• Belle Glade, 925 SE 1st Street, Belle Glade, FL 33430: 33440 (Clewiston). Phone 1-855-257-0983. On the Fort Lauderdale hearing office list, at Suite 200, 300 S. Park Road, Hollywood.

Bonita Springs is the surprise for Lee County residents: although it is in Lee County, its ZIP codes go to Naples, which shares the Fort Myers hearing office. Port Charlotte is the open question. Appendix F and the Port Charlotte office's own locator record place it with the Fort Myers hearing office, but the hearing office list does not name it under any office, so a Charlotte County claimant should go by the Notice of Hearing. Hendry County splits too: LaBelle goes to the Fort Myers office, while Clewiston goes to Belle Glade, so a Clewiston claimant generally has a Fort Lauderdale hearing office in Hollywood, on the Atlantic coast, though the hearing may be held by phone or video.

The Naples, Port Charlotte and Belle Glade offices give their street addresses for mail and keep the same weekday hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Our Florida disability lawyer page maps the rest of the state's hearing offices.

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