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Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage 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.

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

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

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).

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.
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
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

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

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

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.

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

Offers help to 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.

Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
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.
Provides payee services to individuals who are on social security or social security disability.
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Provides Representative Payee Services.

Offers money management services to persons receiving Social Security, VA, Railroad benefits, earned income, or other income.

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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Health Related Advocacy Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disease/Disability Information
Representative Payee Services
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
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.

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

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