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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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Representative Payee Services
Personal Financial Counseling
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 representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
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 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.

Provide a variety of money management services to low-income seniors who have difficulty managing their finances. Services include assisting with opening/organizing mail, budgeting, checkbook balancing, bill paying, and/or managing monthly Social Security benefits (as a bill payer or representative payee).

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Daily Money Management Services
Representative Payee Services

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

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Disability Related Transportation
Home Delivered Meals
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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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities

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.

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Representative Payee Services

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

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).

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.