Consultant Payees Assist You Handle Your Social Safety

Some individuals who obtain month-to-month Social Safety advantages or Supplemental Safety Revenue (SSI) funds might need assistance managing their cash. After we obtain info that signifies you need assistance, we’ll work with you to search out essentially the most appropriate consultant payee to handle your advantages.

A consultant payee is somebody who receives your month-to-month profit cost in your behalf and should use the cash to pay to your present wants.

These embody:

• Meals.
• Clothes.
• Private care gadgets.
• Housing and utilities.
• Medical and dental bills.
• Rehabilitation bills (you probably have a incapacity).

For those who need assistance managing your advantages, inform a Social Safety consultant that there’s somebody you need to be your consultant payee.

Your consultant payee needs to be somebody you belief and see usually, and who clearly understands your wants.

Social service companies, nursing houses, or different organizations are additionally certified to be a consultant payee. Ask them to contact us.

You possibly can write to us inside 60 days of being assigned a consultant payee for those who don’t agree that you simply want one or if you’d like a special consultant payee.

We additionally provide Advance Designation, which lets you designate somebody to be your consultant payee sooner or later. There might come a time when you’ll be able to not make your individual monetary choices. You and your loved ones can have peace of thoughts understanding that somebody you belief could also be appointed to handle your advantages for you.

You possibly can submit your Advance Designation request once you apply for advantages or after you might be already receiving advantages. It’s possible you’ll accomplish that by your private my Social Safety account at www.ssa.gov/myaccount or by calling and talking to a Social Safety consultant.

You will discover extra info at www.ssa.gov/payee.

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