The Fort Worth Social Security Offices and Why Arlington Hearing Requests Usually Go to Dallas

Which Social Security office serves a Fort Worth ZIP code?

It depends on where in Tarrant County you live. Social Security's office locator assigns each ZIP code it lists to one field office, and the Fort Worth area is divided among four. Assignments can change, so look up your own street address in the locator rather than going by the city in your mailing address.

A few assignments run against the map. Weatherford, in Parker County, and Azle go to the downtown Fort Worth office, and Fort Worth ZIP code 76155, near DFW Airport, goes to Mid Cities in Grand Prairie.

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Addresses, Phone Numbers and Directions for the Four Offices

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

• Fort Worth: Room 1-A-07, Federal Building, 819 Taylor Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Phone 1-866-704-4858, fax 1-833-519-3211.

• Fort Worth South: 2901 Altamesa Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76133. Phone 1-866-613-2745, fax 1-833-950-2382.

• Mid Cities: 2010 N State Highway 360, Grand Prairie, TX 75050. Phone 1-855-722-3499, fax 1-833-950-3017. Its locator note says to schedule an appointment for a new or replacement Social Security card online or at 1-800-772-1213.

• Cleburne: 1711 W Henderson Street, Cleburne, TX 76033. Phone 1-866-227-1616, fax 1-833-939-2001.

None of the four uses its street address for mail. The locator gives each a Kansas City processing center address with the office code: Social Security, NRC / FO 821 (Fort Worth), E35 (Fort Worth South), 873 (Mid Cities) or B47 (Cleburne), PO Box 416000, Kansas City, MO 64141. When you answer a notice, use the return address printed on it.

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What a Fort Worth field office handles and what Texas DDS decides

The field office takes the application and checks the 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 the state Disability Determination Services, which decides the medical question and usually asks your own doctors and clinics for records first.

Texas DDS is part of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. When you or your representative request your records, Texas law helps: Health and Safety Code section 161.202 bars a provider from charging a fee for records that you or your representative request to support an SSDI or SSI application or appeal, when the request includes the agency's confirmation of the application or appeal, and section 161.203 gives the provider 30 days to send them. The fee ban does not cover records that DDS or another agency requests itself; the provider may charge for those.

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 DDS. A hearing request after a reconsideration denial moves the case to a hearing office.

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Which hearing office takes a Fort Worth area disability appeal

Social Security's operations manual says hearing office jurisdiction is set by the claimant's residence address, which is why you should check your street address, not just the ZIP code, and the agency's hearing office lists assign each field office's area to a hearing office. For these four field offices, 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 agree.

Fort Worth, Fort Worth South and Cleburne are on the list of the Fort Worth hearing office, in Room 9A27 of the same Federal Building at 819 Taylor Street, phone (866) 613-2744. Mid Cities is on the list of the Dallas North hearing office, at Building 9, Suite 500, 12790 Merit Drive, Dallas, TX 75251, phone (866) 331-7135. So a claimant in Arlington, Grand Prairie, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, Grapevine or Colleyville generally has a Dallas hearing office, while a neighbor in North Richland Hills or Mansfield generally stays with Fort Worth.

You can ask, in a signed statement giving your reasons, to have a case transferred to another hearing office, and Social Security decides whether to do it. 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, and Social Security's hearings manual also lets it reassign some cases to another hearing office to relieve a temporary workload imbalance or increase productivity, with the receiving office notifying you and your representative. Our Fort Worth disability lawyer page and Dallas disability lawyer page cover the two hearing offices.

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Weatherford, Burleson, Southlake and the edges of the metro

At the edges of the metro, county lines and field office areas do not always match. Weatherford, in Parker County, and Azle, on the Tarrant and Parker county line, use the downtown Fort Worth office, and their hearing requests generally go to the Fort Worth hearing office, though the hearing itself may be held by phone or video. Johnson County's Burleson, Cleburne and Joshua use the Cleburne office, which is also on the Fort Worth hearing office list.

On the northeast side, Southlake goes to downtown Fort Worth while neighboring Grapevine and Colleyville go to Mid Cities, so two adjoining towns can end up with different hearing offices. If you move between them, update your address with Social Security and check the new one in the locator. Our Texas disability lawyer page covers the rest of the state.

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