Social Security Corner
Resources for representatives Benefit verification letters and other transactions can be done online
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illions of Americans who get monthly Social Security benefits or Supplemental Security Income payments need help managing their money, and may need a representative payee. A representative payee is a person or an organization appointed to receive and manage a person’s benefits.
of benefits for their care and well-being. To help with this responsibility, representative payees can now receive, save, email and print a benefit verification letter for a person they repby resent using their own my Social Security account, at www.ssa.gov/ myaccount.
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Representative payees must know the beneficiary’s needs to decide the best use
Many representative payees are responsible for completing an annual form to account for the benefit payments they receive and manage. Representative payees can fill out the form and return it to
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