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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 Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Protective payee services for those receiving Social Security benefits.
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
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Provides Representative Payee services to individuals that Social Security has determined are unable to manage their own benefits.

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

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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Representative Payee Services
Daily Money Management Services

Offers assistance with budgeting and financial management for Story County residents who are required by the Social Security Administration to have a representative payee. The purpose of the program is to assist with income management to ensure housing, food, medical and material needs are met.

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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

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Disability Related Transportation
Representative Payee Services
Home Delivered Meals

Provides help with budgeting money and bill-paying.

Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage 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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Prescription Medication Services
Psychiatric Case Management
Representative Payee Services
General Counseling Services
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.

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

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.

Categories

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