Webinar: Understanding Social Security Administration’s Representative Payee Program
Webinar: Understanding Social Security Administration’s Representative Payee Program
This webinar focuses on your rights and responsibilities when you have a representative payee. When you have a representative payee, it is important to express your wishes and ensure that your needs are met.
Webinar:Understanding Social Security Administration’s Representative Payee Program
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If you receive a Social Security benefit payment such as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the Social Security Administration (SSA) may decide you need a representative payee.
If you have a representative payee, you have the right to know how your representative payee is spending your disability benefit money.
*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental disabilities.*
Live Caption and ASL Interpreter Available
When:
January 17, 2023
11:00 AM
Pacific Time
About the webinar:
This webinar focuses on your rights and responsibilities when you have a representative payee. When you have a representative payee, it is important to express your wishes and ensure that your needs are met. This webinar will inform you about:
- What is the Representative Payee Program?
- How does the Social Security Administration decide you need a payee?
- Who can be a representative payee?
- What are the payee’s duties and responsibilities?
- What must you tell your representative payee.
- Can a representative payee charge you for paying your bills?
- What to do if you think your payee is mismanaging your funds.
- How you can change your payee.
- How you can ask Social Security to become your own payee.
We look forward to you joining this webinar and any question on this subject.
Speakers:
Debi Davis, MSW, is a person with lived experience and a long-time mental health advocate. Volunteered for 10 years with Riverside County Patient Rights Office. For the past 14 years, Ms. Davis has worked in the Peer and Self-Advocacy unit of Disability Rights California, facilitating self-advocacy groups at a state hospital and locked facilities in the community.