<prompt> Human: Hey everyone, trying to help my dad retire and so I helped him apply for retirement via SS a little over three months ago now. I cant find any info on how long this is supposed to take online, everything seems to be for disability, not retirement.When I check the status of his allocation at the SS site, it shows that it was submitted three months ago, but hasnt yet moved on to processing. I tried calling, waited on hold for 5 hours, holy cow only for them to tell me they had no idea how long it would take and that they couldnt check the status of his application.Hes currently disabled and cant work, but didnt apt for disability on advice of a lawyer who said that the combination of long processing time, my dads lack of savings and low expense needs made SS retirement a better path.Anyone have any knowledge on this? Trying to help him plan this out but its a lot harder than I realized.  <response>: My Dad was approved within 30 days. Something sounds odd. Maybe make an appointment with Dad at the local SS office in person? 