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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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General Relief
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Food Pantries
Representative Payee Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance
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.

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

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Representative Payee Services
Any individual appointed as a Veterans Administration (VA) fiduciary is responsible for managing the beneficiary's VA income and ensuring the beneficiary's just debts are paid. Additional responsibilities of the fiduciary include but are not limited to the following: Utilizing the funds for daily needs, reporting changes to the fiduciary activity, keeping accurate and complete records and receipts, etc.
Protective payee services for those receiving Social Security benefits.
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Provides Representative Payee Services.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Provides payee services to individuals who are on social security or social security disability.

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

Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage 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.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Supported Employment
Protective payee services public protective payee for persons who receive disability benefits from Social Security Administration, Veteran's Administration and/or Department of Human 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.

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Representative Payee Services
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Mental Health Drop In Centers
Psychiatric Medication Services
Psychiatric Case Management
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.

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

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

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Representative Payee Services
Services provided include management of SSDI and SSI income, bill payment, budgeting skills education, landlord/tenant negotiation, long-term fiscal planning, and information and referral.

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 a payee service to those who struggle with maintaining their finances. Works to help bring self-sufficiency by teaching budgeting and financial management while utilizing the payee service.

Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Provides Representative Payee services to individuals that Social Security has determined are unable to manage their own benefits.