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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.
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.

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.

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

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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Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Representative Payee Services
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage their finances.

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
Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Provides payee services to those persons determined by the Social Security Administration to be unable to manage monetary 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

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

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.
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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Mental Health Drop In Centers
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Medication Services
Representative Payee Services
Psychiatric Case Management
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Protective payee services for those receiving Social Security benefits.

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 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.

Provides payee services to individuals who are on social security or social security disability.

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 assistance with finances to individuals 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.