Rep Payee Inconsistencies

Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has done a study of claimants who are entitled to both a Title II benefit, based upon their own or someone else's earnings record, as well as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and who have a representative payee to handle their benefits for them. OIG found that there are many thousands of cases in which a claimant has a representative payee for either Title II or SSI benefits, but not for the other type of benefits, that is that part of the claimant's benefits were paid to a representative payee, while part was paid directly to the claimant, a glaring inconsistency. OIG recommended that SSA make the effort to resolve these inconsistencies.