Third-Party Integrations
Published: 12/20/2025
SSA.tools is designed to be a powerful, standalone calculator for Social Security benefits. However, retirement planning often involves more than just Social Security. That's why I've built an integration system that allows other financial planning tools to seamlessly connect with SSA.tools.
These integrations allow you to move data between SSA.tools and other platforms, ensuring that your Social Security estimates are accurate and consistent across your entire financial plan.
Current Integrations
The following tools have built-in integrations with SSA.tools. Each integration is designed to streamline your planning workflow.
| Tool | Description | Integration Features |
|---|---|---|
| Open Social Security | A free, open-source tool that helps you determine the optimal claiming strategy to maximize your lifetime benefits. | Transfers your detailed earnings record from SSA.tools to Open Social Security, ensuring their optimization engine uses the most accurate benefit estimates. |
| Linopt | Focuses on retirement income optimization. | Displays your Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) adjusted for inflation, formatted specifically for input into Linopt's planning models. |
| FIRECalc | A popular tool for testing the viability of your retirement portfolio against historical market data. | Provides your Social Security benefits in today's dollars, with start years rather than ages, making it easy to plug accurate figures into FIRECalc's "Social Security" tab. |
| FI Calc | A modern retirement calculator that helps you visualize your withdrawal strategy success rates. | Generates specific income entries for FI Calc, including annual amounts and start-year offsets, so you can accurately model your Social Security income streams within their app. |
| cFIREsim | Crowdsourced FIRE Simulator is another historical simulation tool for retirement planning. | Guides you through creating the correct adjustment entries for cFIREsim, ensuring your Social Security benefits are modeled correctly in your simulations. |
| Fin Pods AI | Uses auditable intelligence to assist with financial planning. | Connects your SSA.tools data with Fin Pods AI's analysis tools. |
| Owl Retirement Planner | A comprehensive retirement planning application. | Displays your Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) values. |
How Integrations Work
Passing Data In
Integrations are typically activated via a special URL parameter. For example, a third-party site might send you to SSA.tools with a link like:
https://ssa.tools/calculator#integration=sitename.comThey can also pre-fill your data using the URL parameters, so you don't have to re-enter your information:
https://ssa.tools/calculator#integration=sitename.com&pia1=3000&dob1=1980-01-01Getting Data Out
When an integration is active, you'll see a banner at the top of the page. Once you've completed your earnings record entry, a new section will appear at the bottom of your report.
This "Report End" section is customized for each integration. It might display your data in a specific format, provide copy-paste values, or offer a button to send your calculated benefits back to the third-party tool.
Interested in Integrating?
I am always looking to expand the ecosystem of high-quality financial planning tools. If you run a retirement planning site or financial tool and would like to integrate with SSA.tools, I'd love to hear from you.
The integration system is designed to be flexible and secure. I can work with you to define the best way to exchange data and provide a seamless experience for our mutual users.
Please contact me to discuss potential integrations.