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Opportunity Homes offers supervision and training in independent living skills for people who experience a cognitive disability and/or chronic mental illness and live in their own apartments or homes in the community. Also provides representative payee services.

Services

Representative Payee Services
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Offers payee services to those that SSI deems are in need of help with finances and bill paying.

Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
A protective service for limited-income seniors who need help managing their finances. Bill payer volunteers assist individuals who are able to make decisions about their financial affairs but who need help organizing bills and paying them on time. Representative payee volunteers are appointed by Social Security to receive and manage benefits of a person who is determined incapable of managing his or her own finances. In contrast to the bill payer program, the representative payee signs the checks and has full control of the benefits. They pay bills and make sure the client's needs are being met.

Services

Personal Financial Counseling
Representative Payee Services
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
The program helps both beneficiaries and representative payees. Beneficiaries are the recipients of Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Rep payees are the individuals or organizations who manage Social Security benefits. SSA assesses a beneficiary's need for a rep payee on a case-by-case basis. Equip for Equality's role is meant to help keep beneficiaries safe and ensure their needs are met by conducting performance reviews to discover whether or not a representative payee is carrying out its duties.
Provides payee services to individuals who are on social security or social security disability.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.

Offers a non-profit social service agency that helps the homeless, mentally ill, disabled, and older adults to budget, manage, and pay their monthly bills. Services include representative payee services for social security checks and money management services are offered for a fee.

Magnolia Care Solutions manages funds for veterans as authorized by the Veteran's Administration.
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

Offers assistance and support to people who have multiple sclerosis and those who care about them adjust to life with a chronic illness by providing emotional support, current information, counseling, advocacy, education, payee services and borrowed health equipment.

Services

Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Representative Payee Services
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Health Related Advocacy Groups
A representative payee is an individual or organization appointed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to receive Social Security and/or SSI benefits for someone who cannot manage or direct someone else to manage his or her money. The main responsibilities of a payee are to use the benefits to pay for the current and foreseeable needs of the beneficiary and properly save any benefits not needed to meet current needs. A payee must also keep records of expenses. When SSA requests a report, a payee must provide an accounting of how benefits were used or saved.
Provide payee representative services for Social Security recipients. A budget is set up with the client, bills are paid and a weekly spending check is given to the client. All reporting for Social Security, DHS, food stamps, medical assistance, rent reimbursement, and energy assistance is taken care of. Help is given to secure housing and communicate with support workers.
Services offered by the Adult Services program include:
  • Transportation assistance for low-income disabled Polk County residents and individuals 60 & over whom have no other means.
  • A home delivered lunchtime meals for those unable to prepare a meal for themselves or transportation to a senior meal site.
  • Financial management and budget counseling for low-income individuals

Services

Home Delivered Meals
Disability Related Transportation
Representative Payee Services
Provides assistance with finances to individuals receiving Social Security benefits.

Offers older adults and adults with disabilities basic assistance with money management tasks including, balancing a checkbook, managing bills, identifying scams, and providing advocacy with creditors.

Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

Services

Representative Payee Services
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Services

Supported Employment
Representative Payee Services
Centers for Independent Living
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities

Offers budgeting, bill payor, representative payee, or advisory assistance through the Illinois Department on Aging's Illinois Volunteer Money Management Program, available to participants in the Community Care Program (CCP) or clients through the Adult Protective Service Program (APS).

Provides services to individuals with mental health issues. Services include case management, counseling, prescription administration and representative payee services.

Services

Prescription Medication Services
Representative Payee Services
General Counseling Services
Psychiatric Case Management

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Services

Supported Employment
Representative Payee Services
Centers for Independent Living
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities