I think the title of this report from Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG), Beneficiaries Serving as Representative Payees Who Have A Representative Payee, tells you the story. It's only 381 representative payees nationally who have their own representative payee, which really isn't that many considering how many representative payees there are, but it's still 381 too many.
In fairness to Social Security, in many cases it's hard to find anyone who is able and willing to be a representative payee for an incompetent claimant.
In fairness to Social Security, in many cases it's hard to find anyone who is able and willing to be a representative payee for an incompetent claimant.
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There must be way more cases than that. I have seen several myself
Same here. Common SSI scenario is a mom who has a rep payee and then is also rep payee for one of more of her own disabled children.
In so many cases, the payee just hands the debit card over to the claimant and that's the end of it!
Hard to find? My brother took advantage of ALL my dads finances including making himself the benefit payee after he made my dad incompetent. He loves to be in charge of free money because he's a liar and a thief
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