Know Your Rights:
Financial Protection
Disability Rights Oregon provides independent oversight of the Social Security’s Representative Payee Program to protect people with disabilities.
Security benefit recipients are called beneficiaries. If a beneficiary cannot manage their own money, a representative payee may be assigned to help them. A representative payee can be an individual or organization.
If you’re a Social Security beneficiary who has a representative payee, know your rights. Disability Rights Oregon is working in collaboration with the Social Security Administration to monitor representative payees in Oregon. Through this collaboration, Disability Rights Oregon is educating representative payees of their responsibilities and identifying cases of misuse to protect people with disabilities.
The Representative Payee Program:
Helps representative payees understand their obligations to the beneficiary being served
Reviews the financial records the representative payees use to keep track of the beneficiaries Social Security benefits to ensure no concerns are present
Speaks with the representative payee and beneficiary about the payeeship, in order to discuss any issue either or both may have
Makes outside referrals to either or both the representative payee and the beneficiary in concern with other issues or needs that may come about through the review
Ensure any issues found are reported to the appropriate agencies