The Tulsa Social Security Office and the Field Offices Around Green Country

Which Social Security office serves a Tulsa ZIP code?

For most of the metro, the Eastgate Metroplex office. Social Security's office locator assigns each ZIP code it lists to one field office, and every Tulsa ZIP code below goes to the Tulsa office, along with most of the suburbs in Tulsa, Creek and Rogers counties and the Broken Arrow ZIP code that reaches into Wagoner 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 Tulsa Social Security Office at Eastgate Metroplex

The locator lists the Tulsa field office at Suite 900, 14002 East 21st Street, Tulsa, OK 74134, open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and closed on weekends. The phone number is 1-866-931-7106 and the fax is 1-833-950-3007. Hours and closures can change, so check the office's locator page before you go.

The locator lists the same Suite 900 street address for mail. When you answer a notice, use the return address printed on it. The national number, 1-800-772-1213, can also schedule a phone or in-person appointment, and a phone appointment can save a trip if you only need to ask about a letter.

The building is also home to the Tulsa hearing office, in Suite 500. Visiting the field office and appearing at a hearing are separate things, though: the field office takes applications and appeal requests, while the hearing office schedules and holds hearings, and a hearing may be held by phone or video rather than in that building.

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What the field office handles and what Oklahoma DDS 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 Oklahoma that agency is Disability Determination Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services. It makes the medical decision, not the non-medical one, on Social Security disability and SSI applications, using records from your doctors, hospitals and clinics. Applications still go through Social Security, not to DDS directly.

Reconsideration, the first appeal after a denial, generally must be requested within 60 days after you receive the denial notice (Social Security assumes you received it 5 days after the date on it unless you show otherwise), online, by phone, by mail or in person, and when the denial was medical the review goes back to DDS. A hearing request after a reconsideration denial moves the case to a hearing office.

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Which hearing office takes a Tulsa disability appeal

For the Tulsa office and its neighbors, Social Security's sources agree. The hearing office list behind the hearing office locator, Appendix F of the agency's privacy notice for hearing records, and the offices' locator records all place the Tulsa, Bartlesville, Muskogee and Okmulgee field offices under the Tulsa hearing office, along with Miami and Stillwater. That office is at Eastgate Metroplex, Suite 500, 14002 E. 21st Street, phone (888) 286-1124.

Miami, in Ottawa County, and Stillwater, in Payne County, are on the same list, so the Tulsa hearing office takes cases from well beyond the metro. Not every field office in the eastern half of the state is on it, though. The hearing office list places Poteau under the Fort Smith, Arkansas hearing office, Durant under Dallas (North), and Ada and Shawnee under Oklahoma City. If you live outside the four field office areas on this page, check your own office in the locator and then on the hearing office list before you assume your case is heard in Tulsa.

Social Security's operations manual says hearing office jurisdiction is set by the claimant's residence address. To ask for a different hearing office, make the request through a Social Security field office with a signed statement giving your reasons, and Social Security decides whether to transfer the case. 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 Tulsa disability lawyer page covers the hearing office in more detail, and our hearing office directory lists the rest.

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Bartlesville, Muskogee and Okmulgee: the offices for the edges of the metro

• Bartlesville, 900 Leisure Lane, Bartlesville, OK 74006: 74003 and 74006 (Bartlesville), 74021 (Collinsville) and 74070 (Skiatook). Phone 1-877-836-1557.

• Muskogee, 2401 W. Shawnee Street, Muskogee, OK 74401: 74401 and 74403 (Muskogee), 74361 (Pryor), 74429 (Coweta) and 74467 (Wagoner). Phone 1-877-575-5195.

• Okmulgee, 308 Creek Place, Okmulgee, OK 74447: 74447 (Okmulgee). Phone 1-855-287-4791.

A few assignments run against the map. Collinsville and Skiatook, both partly in Tulsa County, go to Bartlesville, while Claremore, the Rogers County seat, goes to Tulsa and Pryor, in Mayes County, goes to Muskogee. Coweta and Wagoner, in Wagoner County, also go to Muskogee, though Broken Arrow ZIP 74014, which reaches into Wagoner County, goes to Tulsa.

All three offices keep the same weekday hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central, use their street addresses for mail, and are on the Tulsa hearing office list, so a move between their areas generally leaves you with the Tulsa hearing office, although jurisdiction follows your residence address and can change if you move outside these areas. Our Oklahoma disability lawyer page covers how claims across the rest of the state are routed.

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