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Friday, July 30, 2004

Forms attorneys can use to get the plaintiff's IRS and SSA information

Useful forms for attorneys needing to obtain tax return and social security earnings:

The first is IRS Form 4506 which is a request for copy or transcript of tax returns.  It can be found here.   Note there is a charge for this service, but certainly worth the cost to document earnings.

IRS Tax returns: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-fill/f4506.pdf

The second is the form SSA-7050.pdf which is the form for requesting a social security statement of all earnings.  

Social Security statement of earnings: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/online/ssa-7050.pdf

This makes it much easier for the attorney.  All that is needed is for him or her to fill out the form.  The form only needs the signature of the plaintiff.  Defense attorneys can also use it.  One thing the defense could do to show a good effort to obtain the information, is to  fill the form out and present it to the plaintiff attorney. 



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