The Social Security Administration (SSA) estimates that more than 8 million people who get monthly Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments need help managing their money. Those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In July 2025, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on a Wisconsin woman whose family feared her representative payee might have ...

After decades of paying into the system, it’s easy to see Social Security as a personal nest egg that you can tap into on your own terms. But in reality, the Social Security system functions more like ...

A new proposal by the Social Security Administration (SSA) could disrupt payments for thousands of beneficiaries by barring certain representative payees from managing Social Security benefits. If ...

This chapter addresses part of the third of the four specific items in the committee’s charge: “identify the types of representative payees that have the highest risk of misuse of benefits.” In order ...

In July 2025, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on a Wisconsin woman whose family feared her representative payee might have misused her funds. Representative payees are responsible for aiding ...

The committee’s survey of representative payees and beneficiaries provided information on the populations that are the focus of this report. The first section of this chapter describes the survey ...