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Assessment of the Representative Payee Program of the Social Security Administration: Letter Report
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The SSA wishes to: (1) assess the extent to which representative payees are performing their duties in accordance with SSA standards for representative payee conduct; (2)
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. Preliminary Observations Our information-gathering efforts have primarily focused on SSA administrative files for both beneficiaries and representative payees to learn about their characteristics.
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have a representative payee. TABLE 2 Distribution of Beneficiaries with Representative Payees by Age of Beneficiaries and Benefit Type Age of Beneficiary Benefit Type Less than 18 18 to 64 65 and over OASDI Only Total Number of Beneficiaries 3,026,610 9,673,750 32,546,590 with Representative Payee 99.8% 9.3% 1.7% SSI*
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· For the SSI beneficiaries under 18, those, with payees receive more money on average than beneficiaries without payees. · In the age group 18 to 64, OASDI beneficiaries with representative payees receive less money on average every month than beneficiaries without payees.
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. The data show that parents are indeed most likely to serve as representative payees: 67.5 percent on the OASDI file and 56.6 percent on the SSI file (see Table 4)
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learn whether the representative payment policies are practical and appropriate; (3) identify the types of representative payees that have the highest risk of misuse of benefits; and (4)
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To-date, the research data file consists of data extracted from the RPS, but we are continuing to request other data (e.g., lump-sum payments of previously withheld benefits) for specific representative payees and their beneficiaries.
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GN 00500: Selection of Representative Payees. Available at |
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108-223, this committee will conduct a one-time survey of representative payees and beneficiaries in order to collect new information on representative payee operations and to make recommendations based on the survey, other new analyses, and existing information on how the representative payee program might be improved. The committee's final report in early 2007 will provide the Social Security Administration with guidance on ways that the current representative payee program might improve its operation on behalf of beneficiaries and reduce the misuse of benefits.
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Sometimes, however, social service agencies, nursing homes, or other organizations serve as payees. Individuals who serve as representative payees include spouses, parents, stepparents, grandparents, children, and other relatives.
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The law requires that the commissioner of Social Security conduct a one-time representative survey to determine how payments to individual and organizational representative payees are being managed and used on behalf of the beneficiaries for whom the benefits are paid. The purpose of the survey is to assess the extent to which representative payees are performing their duties in accordance with SSA standards for representative payee conduct.
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Examine existing reports and data, as well as the legislation and relevant background pertaining to the representative payee program to learn about four issues: · the extent to which representative payees are performing their duties as payees in accordance with SSA standards for payees; · identification of the types of payees that have the highest risk of misuse of benefits; · identification of ways to reduce those risks and better protect beneficiaries; · development of findings about the adequacy of payees' actions.
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The committee will prepare a consensus report in early 2007 of its conclusions and recommendations that will be published by the National Academies Press. The report will provide guidance to SSA on ways that the Representative Payee Program might improve the way it operates on behalf of beneficiaries and reduce the misuse of benefits.
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delegate to The Hague Conference on Private International Law and helped draft an international agreement on the recognition of incapacitated adults. She also served as chair of the Social Security Administration's Representative Payment Advisory Committee.
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, and she has served as chair of the ASA's Survey Research Methods Section and as a member of ASA advisory committees, including the Survey Review Committee and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Advisory Group. Her research interests include computer-assisted survey methods, sample design and estimation for natural resource and social surveys, accuracy
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and the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Programs.
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has worked in a variety of capacities over a long career for many committees at the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine including the Strategic Planning Advisory Group for Education, the Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research, the Committee on the Impact of the Changing Economy on the Education System, the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards, and the Committee on Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and Foreign Content of Exports.
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Social Security Administration Fritz Streckewald, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Office of Disability and Income Security Programs Steven L Schaeffer, Assistant Inspector General for Audit 12:00 p.m.
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Break 3:00 p.m. Social Security Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Ethel Zelenske, Director of Government Affairs, National Organization of Social Security Claimants 1996 Representative Payment Advisory Committee Nancy Coleman, Director, Commission on Law and Aging, American Bar Association National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Andrew Sperling, Director of Legislative Advocacy CLOSED SESSION 5:00 p.m.
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Supplemental Security Income -- Recent Growth in the Rolls Raises Fundamental Program Concerns, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Statement by Jane L Ross, Director, Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, January 27, 1995 (GAO/T-HEHS-95-67)
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Supplemental Security Income: Timely Data Could Prevent Millions in Overpayments to Nursing Home Residents, June 1997 (GAO/HEHS-97-62)
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Social Security Administration. Individual Representative Payees for the Social Security Administration in the Seattle Region.
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October 10, 2002. Identifying Representative Payees Who Had Their Own Benefits Suspended Under the Fugitive Provisions of Public Law 104-193.
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It provides for the imposition of civil monetary penalties against representative payees who misuse benefits paid on behalf of their clients. It bars fugitive felons or those violating probation or parole under federal or state law from serving as representative payees.
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Mr. O'Carroll says that the Social Security Protection Act will strengthen the Representative Payee Program and the ability to deal with dishonest representative payees.
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The Social Security Administration's site reviews of representative payees. In June 2000 SSA began triennial site reviews of 810 organizational representative payees serving 100 or more beneficiaries, 736 fee-for-service representative payees, and 209 individuals who serve as representative payees for 20 or more beneficiaries.
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2. MTOSSI.SORD.CURPAYS.D0501 Record layout: CER 2003 print2.xls This 100 percent universe file contains a limited number of variables for all records on the Supplemental Security Record (SSR)
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From the most current RPS database, we received the following data records extracted to six files: R1 Data concerning the beneficiary RP Data concerning the representative payee RN Data concerning nonselected applications RT Data concerning a terminated representative payee R3 Data concerning an active representative payee R6 Control data concerning the SSA-11
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. "Other" representative payees account for 2.3 percent on the OASDI file and 5.8 percent on the SSI file, and they primarily serve the population aged 18 and over (see Table A6-1)
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TABLE A6-2. Beneficiaries with "Other" Representative Payees by Custody Type, in Percent Benefit Type Custody Type OASDI Only SSI*
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The system also provides dates of services and information about any known misuse. Through the system, a representative payee can be linked with a beneficiary and vice versa (Social Security Administration, 2002)
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