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HRD-84-34 1 (1984-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J~ RELLAS[D RESTRICTED - ot 't be reIrnld oirt~kte the Oeneral Accounting ~~~ioa by the Ofice of C -t. c; The Honorable Claude Pepper Chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care Select Committee on Aging House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: GAO Views on the Methodology Used in an SSA Title II Study of Representative Payment (GAO/HRD-84-34) In response to your July 8, 1983, letter and later discus- sions with your staff, we are providing you with: --Our views on the methodology used in a recent Social Security Administration (SSA) study of representative payment in its title II, Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. --Information on the status of SSA's implementation of a representative payee accounting system. --Updated information regarding material given to you on June 8, 1982, pertaining to representative payment in 12 federal cash benefit programs. We evaluated a recent SSA study which showed that represen- tative payees misused2 beneficiaries' funds in less than I per- cent of the cases reviewed. Although we noted flaws in the 'Representative payment is a procedure whereby a designated person receives funds for another person who is unable to manage his or her own funds. 2SSA defines misuse as the misapplication or misappropria- tion of benefits which have been paid to a representative payee on condition that they be expended for the use and benefit of the entitled individual. (105413) UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-215109 MAY 18. 1984 124439 12.4 T

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