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State records show problems with payee services, oversight

payee clients are truly disabled and monies never work out to what they should! “Social Security insists ... representative payees, individuals or organizations tasked by the Social Security Administration with being the ... conducts on organizational payees in the Portland area. Some of them had minor problems. Central City ...

30 Dec 2014 - Jake Thomas
In the news: 20 years of Street Roots reporting

payee service” When Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit entrusted with managing money for its nearly 1,000 ...

4 Oct 2019 - Street Roots
Legal limbo: Safety Net of Oregon’s payee trials continue

are assigned a payee, an individual or an organization charged with making sure the money is used to ... pay the recipient’s rent, bills and other necessities. Safety Net was the state’s largest payee ... reimbursing funds that were mismanaged by a payee, says Wilde. But she doesn’t know when either option will ...

7 Aug 2014 - Jake Thomas
Gaps in oversight leave clients vulnerable in nation’s multi-billion-dollar payee system

helping. Anderson was a representative payee, someone who is assigned by the Social Security Administration ... year 2012, there were about 5.9 million representative payees who managed $72 billion annually for 8.4 ... about 1,000 clients of Safety Net of Oregon, recently had to scramble to find a new payee after the ...

8 May 2014 - Jake Thomas
Feds serve warrant on local payee service

incapable of managing their own money are assigned a “payee.” The payee has control over the benefit money ... payee is a family member or close friend. Organizations, such as Safety Net, serve as payees for ... payee. “Thanks for the memories,” the sign concludes. Another sign written on a yellow legal pad and ...

12 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Judge orders immediate restraining order against Social Security to protect disability clients

that it was mismanaging clients’ funds. Safety Net serves as the representative payee, which is an ... money. The nonprofit, which was payee to about 1,000 people, is slated to shut it doors April 1, ... SSA was required by law to assign the former clients of Safety Net to another payee service. “These ...

26 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Breaking: Oregon Law Center, Disability Rights Oregon file lawsuit against Social Security Administration

find a new organization or individual (a “payee”) to manage their benefits by March 21. Those unable to ... find a new payee would be unable to access their money beginning April 1. Filed March 24 in U.S. ... phone calls and letters that they would need a new payee have fallen short. According to the complaint, ...

24 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Clackamas Co. lawsuit alleges misuse of funds intended for disabled caregivers

a representative payee, an individual or an organization tasked by the Social Security Administration with ... payees who managed $72 billion annually for 8.4 million beneficiaries. Over the last decade, government ... Roots reported on a federal investigation into Oregon’s largest payee service, Safety Net, and it’s ...

6 Dec 2014 - Jake Thomas
Multnomah County chair rips Social Security's handling of nonprofit closure

mismanaging the funds of its clients. Safety Net serves as a representative payee, an individual or ... clients to find new payees. Madrigal says that the Social Security Administration's approach of ... alerting Safety Net's clients that they need a new payee through a phone call or a letter is ...

15 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Street Roots' continuing coverage of Social Security and people experiencing poverty

many with severe disabilities to find a new organization or individual (a “payee”) to manage their ... benefits by March 21. Those unable to find a new payee would be unable to access their money beginning ... the gaps in oversight that leaves clients vulnerable in nation's multi-billion dollar payee ...

9 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff