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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.

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
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.
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.
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Provides Representative Payee services to individuals that Social Security has determined are unable to manage their own benefits.

General Assistance provides financial support to Muscatine County income eligible residents in emergency situations.

Trust Services provides payee support to persons determined by the Social Security Administration to need assistance in managing their benefits.

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
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Representative Payee Services

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 help with budgeting money and bill-paying.

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.

Provides payee services to those persons determined by the Social Security Administration to be unable to manage monetary benefits.
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 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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Supported Employment
Centers for Independent Living
Vocational Rehabilitation
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Representative Payee Services
Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage their finances.

Provides Money Management services through Representative Payee ship and Budgeting Assistance. For individuals who cannot manage their money and who have no other organization or individual who will perform this function.

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

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.

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).

Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.

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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Personal Financial Counseling
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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Personal Financial Counseling
Representative Payee Services