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Social security office in San Jose, CA
3.0 · 100 reviewsOpens today at 9 AMOpens today at 9 AM
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
61AI ScoreNamed in 2 of 2 answersChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026.ConfirmedVisitor submittedVisitorAI guess
Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more!
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Answers marked AI. Summaries of reviews and the record.
What Social Security Administration offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Wednesday is usually the quietest day.
Busiest Monday and Thursday from 11 AM to 2 PM.
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You must make an appointment before you visit Burger Club, a hamburger restaurant, is a 1 minute walk. Egghead/ Sando Cafe, a coffee shop, is a 1 minute walk. Round Table Pizza, a pizza restaurant, is a 2 minute walk.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Closed now. Busiest Mon and Thu, 11 AM to 2 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Social Security Administration.
3.0from 100 reviews
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Social Security Administration. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Social security offices in San Jose, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.
Fact-checked against 2 sources · Published August 16, 2026 · Updated August 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
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Social Security Administration is a social security office in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 61 of 100, which is fair.
Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Social security office |
| Address | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (800) 772-1213 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 3.0 across 100 reviews |
| Known for | The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 18, 2026, 9:44 PM |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Social Security Administration | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (800) 772-1213 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Apply for social security benefits | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Create a mySocialSecurity account | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Get a proof of benefits letter | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Request a replacement social security card | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Update personal information | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Website | https://www.ssa.gov/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 |
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The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement.
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Address: 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA. Phone: (800) 772-1213. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM.)
Business description, written by Social Security Administration on its Google Business Profile: "Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more!"
Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Tuesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
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| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Burger Club | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Egghead/ Sando Cafe | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Round Table Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk |
| MoonBean's Coffee | Coffee shop | 2 min walk |
| Pure Tea Bar | Tea house | 2 min walk |
| Mountain Mike's Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk |
3.0 average across 100 reviews.
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We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Social Security Administration. These are the answers that disagree with the record.
ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026.
| Fact | What AI says | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1750 Meridian Ave | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1000 S. Bascom Ave | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA |
The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Social security offices on the registry run 45 to 66. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Social Security Administration scores 61. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Social Security Administration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 2 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 35 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 74 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 65 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.
That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.
The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."
A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.
Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.
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| Social Security Administration | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.ssa.gov/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Social Security Administration is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the social security offices in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.
Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.
The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.
Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.
Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.
Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
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# Social Security Administration, San Jose: a social security office in San Jose (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/social-security-administration-cottle-rd-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-08-17. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/social-security-administration-cottle-rd-san-jose-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Social Security Administration is a social security office in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 61 of 100, which is fair. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Social security office | | Address | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (800) 772-1213 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 3.0 across 100 reviews | | Known for | The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Wednesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 9:44 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Social Security Administration | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (800) 772-1213 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Services | Service | Apply for social security benefits | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Create a mySocialSecurity account | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Get a proof of benefits letter | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Request a replacement social security card | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Update personal information | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://www.ssa.gov/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Social Security Administration Address: 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA. Phone: (800) 772-1213. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Social Security Administration on its Google Business Profile: "Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more!" ### When to go Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Tuesday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Burger Club | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk | | Egghead/ Sando Cafe | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Round Table Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk | | MoonBean's Coffee | Coffee shop | 2 min walk | | Pure Tea Bar | Tea house | 2 min walk | | Mountain Mike's Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 3.0 average across 100 reviews. ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about Social Security Administration found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Social Security Administration Social Security Administration hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Open Saturdays here? No answer yet ### paying in instalments, is that possible here No answer yet ### ballpark before I book, what am I looking at No answer yet ### Busiest day at Social Security Administration, anyone know? No answer yet ### do regulars get anything here No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Social Security Administration in San Jose? No answer yet ### parking at Social Security Administration, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### cancellation list here, is there one No answer yet ### Whereabouts is Social Security Administration? No answer yet ### is San Jose expensive for this, or is it just here No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves No answer yet ### best social security office in San Jose No answer yet ### Social Security Administration or Social Security Administration? No answer yet ### people keep recommending this place, what for? No answer yet ### anything good on Cottle to kill time near this place? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Social Security Administration We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Social Security Administration. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What the record says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1750 Meridian Ave | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA | | Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1000 S. Bascom Ave | 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA | ## The AI Score: 61 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Social security offices on the registry run 45 to 66. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Social Security Administration scores 61. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Social Security Administration | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 2 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 35 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 74 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 65 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a social security office When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a social security office in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Social Security Administration if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Social Security Administration | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Social Security Administration | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.ssa.gov/ | Subject of this page | | San Jose, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Social Security Administration is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the social security offices in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best social security offices in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/social-security-office - Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Social Security Administration. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJDczcmC4ujoARMlgRMvmpHXE (accessed Aug 16, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Social security offices in San Jose, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Social Security Administration, San Jose: a social security office in San Jose (2026 guide)</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.</p>
<p>Fact-checked against 2 sources · Published August 16, 2026 · Updated August 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
<p>Owner review: not yet. Social Security Administration has not checked this page.</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Social Security Administration is a social security office in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 61 of 100, which is fair.</p>
<p>Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Social security office</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(800) 772-1213</td></tr>
<tr><td>Owner</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>3.0 across 100 reviews</td></tr>
<tr><td>Known for</td><td>The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Prices</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Wednesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Parking</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Last verified</td><td>September 18, 2026, 9:44 PM</td></tr>
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<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit. You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more!</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Social Security Administration</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(800) 772-1213</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Apply for social security benefits</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Create a mySocialSecurity account</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Get a proof of benefits letter</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Request a replacement social security card</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Update personal information</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.ssa.gov/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.</p>
<h4>Known for</h4>
<p>The Social Security Administration in San Jose excels in providing comprehensive support for Social Security services, particularly in online account management and card replacement.</p>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
<p>Nothing found</p>
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<section id="ai-visiting-social-security-administration">
<h3>Visiting Social Security Administration</h3>
<p>Address: 6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA. Phone: (800) 772-1213. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>Business description, written by Social Security Administration on its Google Business Profile: "Save a trip! Visit our website to update your personal information, apply for benefits, and access other services. If you need in-person help, you must call to make an appointment before you visit.
You can also create a mySocialSecurity account from our website to request a replacement Social Security card, get a Proof of Benefits letter, and more!"</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Tuesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<p>Nothing found</p>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Burger Club</td><td>Hamburger restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Egghead/ Sando Cafe</td><td>Coffee shop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Round Table Pizza</td><td>Pizza restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>MoonBean's Coffee</td><td>Coffee shop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pure Tea Bar</td><td>Tea house</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mountain Mike's Pizza</td><td>Pizza restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>3.0 average across 100 reviews.</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<p>Nothing found</p>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<p>Nothing found</p>
<h4>Press</h4>
<p>No press story about Social Security Administration found yet.</p>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<p>None named yet.</p>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Directory listings not read yet.</p>
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<section id="ai-recent-updates-from-social-security-administration">
<h3>Recent updates from Social Security Administration</h3>
<p>Social Security Administration hasn't posted an update here yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Open Saturdays here?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>paying in instalments, is that possible here</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>ballpark before I book, what am I looking at</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Busiest day at Social Security Administration, anyone know?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>do regulars get anything here</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for Social Security Administration in San Jose?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>parking at Social Security Administration, where does everyone put the car?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>cancellation list here, is there one</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Whereabouts is Social Security Administration?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>is San Jose expensive for this, or is it just here</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>walk in here, or is it appointment only?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>anyone tell me what a first visit here involves</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>best social security office in San Jose</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Social Security Administration or Social Security Administration?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>people keep recommending this place, what for?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>anything good on Cottle to kill time near this place?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about Social Security Administration</h3>
<p>We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Social Security Administration. These are the answers that disagree with the record.</p>
<p>ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">What AI says</th><th scope="col">What the record says</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1750 Meridian Ave</td><td>6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026: 1000 S. Bascom Ave</td><td>6140 Cottle Rd, San Jose, CA 95123, USA</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 61 of 100</h3>
<p>The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Social security offices on the registry run 45 to 66. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Social Security Administration scores 61. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Social Security Administration</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>75</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>39</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>100</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Named in 2 of 2 answers that recommended anyone.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>35</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>74</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>84</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>65</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>50</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-ai-decides-what-to-tell-you-about-a-social-security-office">
<h3>How AI decides what to tell you about a social security office</h3>
<p>When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.</p>
<p>That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.</p>
<p>The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-choose-a-social-security-office-in-california-with-or-without-ai">
<h3>How to choose a social security office in California, with or without AI</h3>
<p>A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.</p>
<ul>
<li>Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.</li>
<li>Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.</li>
<li>Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.</li>
<li>Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.</li>
<li>Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-read-the-marks-on-this-page">
<h3>How to read the marks on this page</h3>
<ul>
<li>Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.</li>
<li>Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.</li>
<li>AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-about-the-author">
<h3>About the author</h3>
<p>Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.</p>
<ul>
<li>Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.</li>
<li>Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.</li>
<li>Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Social Security Administration if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Social Security Administration</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Social Security Administration</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.ssa.gov/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Jose, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td>Nothing found</td><td>City Social Security Administration is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the social security offices in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best social security offices in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/social-security-office</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno</li>
<li>/palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-frequently-asked-questions">
<h3>Frequently asked questions</h3>
<h4>What is AI search optimization for local business?</h4>
<p>Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.</p>
<h4>What is Local AI Registry?</h4>
<p>The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.</p>
<h4>How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?</h4>
<p>Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.</p>
<h4>Who writes the answers here?</h4>
<p>Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.</p>
<h4>I own Social Security Administration. How do I fix something or rank higher?</h4>
<p>Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJDczcmC4ujoARMlgRMvmpHXE (accessed Aug 16, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
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