A power of attorney does not give someone authority to act as your representative payee. Your representative payee's authority is limited to matters between you and us. Common requests are the annual representative payee accounting report, the SSI redetermination of eligibility or request for a continuing disability review.
Your representative payee should respond on your behalf to any of our requests for action or information. After paying for your needs your representative payee must save for you any money left, preferably in an interest-bearing bank account.Įach year, we will ask certain representative payees to complete a representative payee accounting report showing how they spent and saved the money they received for you. Your representative payee must first use your Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for your current basic needs for food, clothing, housing, medical care and personal comfort items. The most important duty of a representative payee is to know your needs and to use the benefits in your best interests. WHAT ARE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE'S DUTIES? Providers or administrative officers at homeless shelters orĪ community based non-profit agency that has been approved by SSA to charge a fee for its service as a payee. Someone who is concerned with your welfare, usually a parent, spouse, close relative, guardian, or friend Īn institution, such as a nursing home or health care provider Ī public or nonprofit agency, social service agency, or financial organization WHO CAN SERVE AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE? WHO MUST HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE?Īnyone we determine to be incapable of managing or directing the management of his or her benefits. For more information on representative payees you can view the publication When a Representative Payee Manages Your Money at on our website.īefore appointing a representative payee, we must evaluate medical and other types of evidence about your ability to manage your SSI benefits. OPIA's Insider Guide to the Department of Justice SLIP and Honors Program Application Process has been updated for the 2022 application cycle.Understanding SSI Home Page / Understanding Supplemental Security Income Representative Payee Program REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE PROGRAMĪ representative payee is a person, agency, organization or institution we select to manage your benefits when we determine that you are unable to do so yourself or direct others to do it for you.
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