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Representative Payee Program: Provides financial management of SSI/SSDI benefits for adults with mental illness who are required to have a Representative Payee.
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.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Protective payee services for those receiving Social Security benefits.
Provides Representative Payee Services.

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 Money Management services through Representative Payee ship and Budgeting Assistance. For individuals who cannot manage their money and who have no other organization or individual who will perform this function.

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.

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

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.

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Disease/Disability Information
Representative Payee Services
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Health/Disability Related Support 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.

Provides assistance to limited-income seniors who need help managing their finances. The level of care provided is based on the need of the person. The goal of the program is to assist low-income seniors and persons with disability (who are financially exploited) to assure independence and to prevent pre-mature institutional care and abuse.

The program helps with such bill-paying activities as opening and organizing mail, setting up budgets, and balancing checkbooks for seniors who remain in control of their finances, but need some help keeping things in order.

Representative Payee volunteers help clients manage their Social Security benefits, if the client is unable to handle his or her own finances. The Representative Payee volunteer manages and pays the client's expenses from an account into which the Social Security benefit is automatically deposited.

Offers to help develop and/or maintaining money management skills.

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
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

Representative Payee Services
Disability Related Transportation
Home Delivered Meals
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
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

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

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

Services

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

Rent and utilities assistance may be available. Must have an eviction notice for rent assistance, and must have disconnect notice for utility assistance. Does not help with first month's rent or security deposits for rental homes.

Indigent burial assistance (cremation).Payee services for Social Security/Disability recipients which uses funds to pay rent, utilities, nursing home. Assigned by courts or Social Security Administration.

Emergency food assistance (works through local food pantries). Does not offer food vouchers.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Food Pantries
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Representative Payee Services
Community support program offers case management, day treatment, medication monitoring/administration, teaching of psychosocial skills, community follow-up, drop-in center, protective payee, and a residential program.

Services

Psychiatric Medication Services
Psychiatric Case Management
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Representative Payee Services
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Mental Health Drop In Centers
Provides payee services to individuals who are on social security or social security disability.

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

Services

Psychiatric Case Management
Prescription Medication Services
Representative Payee Services
General Counseling Services
Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.