The Three Las Vegas Valley Social Security Offices and the ZIP Codes Each One Serves

Which Social Security office serves a Las Vegas ZIP code?

Your ZIP code usually decides it, not the city on your mail. Social Security's office locator assigns each ZIP code it lists to one field office, and in the valley many Las Vegas ZIP codes belong to the Henderson or North Las Vegas office. Assignments can change, so look up your own street address in the locator before you go.

On and around the Strip, a Las Vegas address often belongs to the Henderson office. ZIP code 89109 goes to Henderson, not the Las Vegas office on Buffalo Drive, and so do 89119, 89120, 89121, 89123, 89169 and 89183. Around downtown and across the north and northeast side, 89106, 89110 and 89115 go to North Las Vegas.

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Addresses, Phone Numbers and Directions for the Valley Offices

The locator lists all three as open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Time and closed on weekends. Hours and closures can change, so check the office's own locator page before you go.

• Las Vegas: Suite 150, 1250 S Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89117, one block south of Charleston Boulevard by the locator's directions. Phone 1-866-704-4859, fax 1-833-346-7159.

• Henderson: 10416 S Eastern Avenue, Henderson, NV 89052, in the middle of an office park. Phone 1-855-207-7084, fax 1-833-950-3025.

• North Las Vegas: 4340 Simmons Street, North Las Vegas, NV 89032, at the southeast corner of Craig Road and Simmons Street. Phone 1-866-614-9667, fax 1-833-902-2608.

For all three, the locator gives the office's own street address as its mailing address, rather than a processing center address, as some offices list. When you answer a notice, the return address printed on that notice still controls.

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

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What the field office handles and what Nevada's disability bureau decides

A 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. Social Security's page on the disability determination process says the field office then sends the case to a state agency to decide whether you are disabled.

In Nevada that agency is the Bureau of Disability Adjudication, part of the Rehabilitation Division of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. It makes the medical determinations on SSDI and SSI claims with Social Security, while the local Social Security office determines non-medical eligibility. Like other state agencies doing this work, it usually requests records from your own doctors and clinics first and can schedule a consultative examination when those records are unavailable or not enough to decide the claim. Its page lists (833) 877-3164 and says to contact the bureau when your local Social Security office tells you the claim is pending there.

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

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Which hearing office takes a Las Vegas disability appeal

Here the hearing office list, Appendix F and the office records agree. The hearing office list behind Social Security's hearing office locator, Appendix F of the agency's privacy notice for hearing records and the three offices' locator records all place Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas with the Las Vegas hearing office, at Suite 4452, 333 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, NV 89101. Appendix F identifies the building as the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse.

Social Security's operations manual says hearing office jurisdiction follows the claimant's residence address, though you can ask, in a signed statement giving your reasons, to have a case transferred, and Social Security decides whether to do it. Its 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. A hearing can be held 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 if you show good cause. The Notice of Hearing gives the format and, for an in-person or agency video hearing, the location. Our Las Vegas disability lawyer page covers representation at that office, and our hearing office directory lists the rest.

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Laughlin, Pahrump, Mesquite and Boulder City at the edges of the Las Vegas area

Laughlin is an exception in southern Nevada. The locator assigns its ZIP code, 89029, to the Colorado River Basin field office at 1502 Bailey Avenue, Needles, California 92363, phone 1-866-596-7946. That office is on the Phoenix North hearing office list, at Suite 430, 18444 North 25th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85023, in the hearing office data, in Appendix F and in its own locator record. So the hearing for a Laughlin claimant is generally assigned to Phoenix, and the Notice of Hearing names the office that holds the case. A Laughlin claimant can ask, in a signed statement giving reasons, to have the case transferred. The Needles office keeps the same weekday hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Time, and the locator gives its street address for mail.

Pahrump, Boulder City, Mesquite, Moapa, Logandale and Overton stay with the Las Vegas hearing office. Pahrump goes to the Las Vegas office on Buffalo Drive, Boulder City to Henderson, and the four northeast towns to North Las Vegas. Our Nevada disability lawyer page covers the rest of the state.

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