These include: A representative payee is someone who received SSI payments on behalf of the deceased after their death. These payments are considered overpayments, and the representative or their ...

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BOSTON — A 45-year-old Fall River woman was sentenced May 12 in federal court in Boston for stealing nearly $90,000 of her child’s Social Security benefits over the course of six years.

Charging documents stated that 45-year-old Nancy Taylor of Fall River first applied to receive Social Security benefits on behalf of her child as a representative payee in August 2014. At this ...

Whether the beneficiary currently collects benefits after a lifetime of working or SSDI for a disability, the new proposal would require their representative payee to provide proof that they have ...

“If they go forward with this representative payee plan, they are talking about interrupting benefits that are legally owed to Americans and American-born children here in the U.S.,” he said.

FredFroese / Getty Images A representative payee is appointed to accept Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments for someone incapable of managing their benefits.

Instead, officials said, the Social Security Administration “frequently appoints OCS to be the representative payee for children’s benefits, and then OCS follows federal law by spending the ...

and low-income benefits." At issue is a little-known practice: SSA sometimes allows an individual without an SSN to serve as a representative payee to manage benefit checks on behalf of someone ...

there are scenarios where they can accept benefits on behalf of an eligible person who does have an SSN as that person’s “representative payee.” Kathleen Romig, the director of Social ...