Social Security Corner

Social Security Corner Resources for representatives

Benefit verification letters and other transactions can be done online

Millions 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.

Representative payees must know the beneficiary’s needs to decide the best use

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 by a person they repElizabeth resent using their own my Social Security account, Pivonka at www.ssa.gov/ myaccount. 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 Social Security provides online tools that can help representative payees manage a person’s benefits.

Social Security by mail, or conveniently file it online at www. ssa.gov/myaccount/rep-payee. html.

Please visit www.ssa.gov/payee if you have questions about representative payees.

The author is with the Social Security Administration in Albany.

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