The following two agencies provide SSA approved translator services for many languages
            that are otherwise unavailable in the region.
         
         NOTE: Due to privacy considerations, do not annotate the claimant’s entire Social Security
            Number on the SSA-533 when faxing the request to a non-SSA translator. Include your
               Field
               Office
               (FO) contact information on all SSA-533 forms.
         
            
               1. Non-SSA Translators in the Boston Region
               
             
            
               
                  
                  
                     American Translation Partners
 1 Trowbridge Road Suite 340
 Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
                     
                     Telephone number: 508-823-8892
                     Toll Free Telephone number: 888-443-2376
                     Fax number: 508–823–8854
                   
                
               
                  
                  
                     
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 Fax the translation request directly to American Translation Partners (ATP) using
                                    an SSA-533. Include your FO contact information on the SSA-533 form (i.e., name and
                                    telephone). Normally, the fee is $60.00 per document.
                                  
 
 
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 If the fee exceeds $60.00, ATP will contact the requesting FO before completing the
                                    translation. Seek approval from the Center for Disability and Programs Support (CDPS)
                                    in the Regional Office when you have a fee quote over $60.00.
                                  
 
 
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 ATP completes most translations within 2-3 working days. ATP will fax the translation
                                    back to the requesting FO along with an invoice for services. FOs should promptly respond to the invoice and pay the fee using the office’s government purchase credit card.
                                    Do
                                       not use a third party draft to pay the fee. 
 
 
 
                
             
          
         
            
               2. Non-SSA Translators outside the Boston Region
               
             
            
               
                  
                  
                     The Language Bank, Inc.
                     34W056 Wagner Rd
                     Batavia, IL 60510
                     Telephone number: 630-406-1277
                     Toll Free telephone number: 888-852-1444
                     FAX number: 630-406-0917
                   
                
               
                  
                  
                     
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 Fax the translation requests to The Language Bank (TLB) using an SSA-533. Include
                                    your FO contact information on the SSA-533 (i.e., name and telephone). Normally, the
                                    fee is $50.00 per document up to 50 words, longer documents by negotiation.
                                  
 
 
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 If the fee exceeds $50.00, TLB will contact the requesting FO before completing the
                                    translation. Seek approval from CDPS when you have a fee quote over $50.00.
                                  
 
 
                        - 
                           
                              • 
                                 TLB completes most translations within 1-3 days. TLB will fax the translation back
                                    to the requesting FO along with an invoice for services. FOs should promptly respond to the invoice and pay the fee using the office’s government purchase credit card.
                                    Do
                                       not use a third party draft to pay the fee. 
 
 
 
                
             
          
         
            
            
               ATP and TLB provide translation services for the following languages.
               
                  
                     
                     
                        
                        
                           
                           | Afghan | Frisian | Norwegian | 
                        
                           
                           | Afrikaans | Georgian | Pashtu | 
                        
                           
                           | Albania | German | Persian | 
                        
                           
                           | Amharic | Greek | Polish | 
                        
                           
                           | Arabic | Gujarati | Portuguese | 
                        
                           
                           | Armenian | Haitian Creole | Punjabi | 
                        
                           
                           | Azeri (Azerbaijan) | Hebrew | Romanian | 
                        
                           
                           | Basque | Hindi | Russian | 
                        
                           
                           | Bengali | Hungarian | Serbian (Serbo-Croatian) | 
                        
                           
                           | Brazilian Portuguese | Indonesian | Sindhi | 
                        
                           
                           | Bulgarian | Icelandic | Sinhalese | 
                        
                           
                           | Burmese | Italian | Slovak | 
                        
                           
                           | Byelorussian | Japanese | Somali | 
                        
                           
                           | Canadian French | Javanese | Spanish | 
                        
                           
                           | Cantonese | Kazak | Swahili | 
                        
                           
                           | Catalan | Khmer (Cambodian) | Swedish | 
                        
                           
                           | Chinese | Korean | Tagalog (Phillippines) | 
                        
                           
                           | Creole | Kurdish | Tajik | 
                        
                           
                           | Czech | Lao (Laotian) | Tamil | 
                        
                           
                           | Danish | Latin | Thai | 
                        
                           
                           | Dutch | Latvian | Turkish | 
                        
                           
                           | Estonian | Lithuanian | Ukrainian | 
                        
                           
                           | Farsi (Persian) | Macedonian | Urdu | 
                        
                           
                           | Finnish | Malagasy | Uzbek | 
                        
                           
                           | Flemish | Malay-Indonesian | Vietnamese | 
                        
                           
                           | French | Mandarin | Welsh | 
                        
                           
                           |   | Moldovin |   | 
                     
                  
                
             
          
         
            
               4. Additional Information
               
             
            
               
                  - 
                     
                        • 
                           Translation services for other languages are available upon request. 
 
 
                  - 
                     
                        • 
                           If you encounter any changes or problems, please advise CDPS or send PolicyNet Feedback.