You Can Make
A Difference
The Social Security Administration's
(SSA) Representative Payment Program provides assistance to the most
vulnerable members of society-the young, the elderly, and the disabled
who are unable to manage their Social Security or Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) benefits.
SSA pays these people through representative payees who receive and
manage payments on behalf of beneficiaries. For a small segment of the
population, traditional networks of support are not available, and SSA
looks to state, local or community sources to fill the need. These sources
are called organizational representative payees.
SSA Seeks Qualified Organizations
SSA is seeking qualified organizations to help satisfy the need for
representative payees. Generally, organizations make good payees because
they have plenty of experience with services and resources within the
community.
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How To Use The
Benefits
A representative payee receives and manages the beneficiary's payments
and uses them for the care and benefit of the beneficiary. Social Security
or SSI benefits are properly used if they are:
 spent
for the beneficiary's current and reasonably foreseeable needs; or
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saved and invested for the beneficiary,
if the current needs are met. |
As an organizational representative payee, you will be required
to make sure that all the beneficiaries needs are met and good records
are maintained.
The Difference Is You!
Organizations really do make a difference when they act as payees for
Social Security or SSI beneficiaries because they provide a critical
service to one of the most vulnerable segments of our population. Being
a representative payee can be very demanding, but it can also be very
rewarding. Representative payees can make a difference. |
For More Information
Visit our website at www.socialsecurity.gov/payee to
answer many of the questions you may have about the Representative
Payment Program. You also may call our toll-free telephone number, 1-800-772-1213.
You can speak to a service representative between the hours of
7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on business days. Or, if you prefer, you can
visit or write your local Social Security office.
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www.socialsecurity.gov
