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Program Operations Manual System (POMS)

Subchapter List for Use and Accountability of Benefits

GN 006: Use and Accountability of Benefits

GN 00602: Use of Benefits

GN 00602.000: Use of Benefits - Table of Contents

GN 00602.001: Use of Benefits

GN 00602.010: Current Maintenance and the Personal Needs Allowance for Institutionalized Beneficiaries

GN 00602.020: Using Title II Benefits to Support Other Family Members

GN 00602.030: Payment of Beneficiary's Past Due Debts - Claims of Creditors

GN 00602.040: Guardianship Fees

GN 00602.050: Insurance/Burial Contract Premiums

GN 00602.060: Beneficiary Confined to Institution for Criminally Insane

GN 00602.070: Group Purchases Beneficiary Resides in an Institution/Nursing Home or Other Group Living Facility

GN 00602.075: Transfer of Benefits to a Trust

GN 00602.090: Exchange of Information with VA

GN 00602.100: Exchange of Information with the Department of Veterans Affairs—Representative Payee's and Fiduciary's Improper Use or Misuse of Benefits

GN 00602.110: Reimbursement for Payee Services

GN 00602.120: Attempts to Direct Payee's Use of Benefits

GN 00602.130: Improper Use of Benefits

GN 00602.140: Permitted Expenditures from Dedicated Accounts

GN 00602.150: Misapplication of Funds in a Dedicated Account

GN 00603: Conservation of Benefits

GN 00603.000: Conservation of Benefits - Table of Contents

GN 00603.001: Conservation of Benefits - Basic Policy

GN 00603.010: Conserving Benefits in a Savings or Checking Account

GN 00603.015: Foreign Bank Account Legends

GN 00603.020: Collective Checking and Savings Accounts Managed by Representative Payees

GN 00603.025: Dedicated Accounts for Disabled/Blind SSI Recipients Under Age 18

GN 00603.030: U.S. Savings Bonds

GN 00603.040: Investments Other Than U. S. Savings Bonds

GN 00603.041: The Use of Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Accounts by Representative Payees

GN 00603.050: Conservation of Title XVI Benefits by Institutional Payees

GN 00603.055: Transfer of Conserved Funds

GN 00603.060: Transfer of U. S. Savings Bonds

GN 00603.070: Payment of Large Amounts of Accumulated or Conserved Benefits — Title II Only

GN 00603.085: Installment Payments of Accumulated or Conserved Funds — Title II Only

GN 00603.090: Large Amount Due Beneficiary Receiving Direct Payment of Benefits While Residing in a Proprietary Nursing Home

GN 00603.100: Entitlement Terminated - Notice to be Given About Conserved Benefits

GN 00603.110: Handling Conserved Funds When Payee's Whereabouts are Unknown or Upon the Death of the Payee

GN 00603.120: Former Payee Is An Institution or Social Agency

GN 00603.130: When Former Payee May Administer Conserved Benefits

GN 00603.140: Social Security Benefit Funds Commingled with Other Funds Belonging to the Beneficiary

GN 00605: Representative Payee Accountability

GN 00605.000: Representative Payee Accountability - Table of Contents

GN 00605.001: Overview of Annual Representative Payee Accounting

GN 00605.005: PC and FO Responsibilities For Accounting

GN 00605.010: The Representative Payee Accounting Report Forms

GN 00605.015: Payees Exempt from the Annual Accounting Requirement

GN 00605.020: System Selection and Control, and Mailing of Accounting Forms

GN 00605.025: Changing The Month of Selection For Accounting

GN 00605.030: Payee Requests FO Help With The Accounting Report

GN 00605.035: FO, TSC or PC Provides Replacement Accounting Form

GN 00605.040: WBDOC Screening and Imaging Process

GN 00605.045: Representative Payee Report Returned as Undeliverable

GN 00605.050: PCs and FOs Clear Controls, Input Conserved Funds

GN 00605.055: Retaining Completed Representative Payee Reports

GN 00605.060: Reviewing the Accounting Reports

GN 00605.061: Explanation of Computer Printed Entries on Accounting Reports

GN 00605.065: What the Questions and Payee Responses Mean

GN 00605.066: How To Evaluate Payee Responses

GN 00605.067: How To Evaluate Payee Responses About Use of Benefits

GN 00605.068: How To Evaluate Payee Responses About Conserved Funds

GN 00605.069: Reviewing The Back of The Report

GN 00605.070: Reviewing the SSA-623-OCR-SM (08/2007)

GN 00605.072: Reviewing the SSA-6230-OCR-SM (08/2007)

GN 00605.074: Reviewing the SSA-6234-OCR-SM (08/2007)

GN 00605.080: Combining The Accounting and SSI Redetermination Interviews

GN 00605.090: Payee Fails To Complete Annual Accounting Report

GN 00605.100: When a Payee Evaluation Report (SSA-624-F5) Is Required

GN 00605.105: SSA-624-F5 Face-To-Face Interview

GN 00605.106: SSA-624-F5 Evaluation of Payee Performance

GN 00605.200: Overview of Monitoring Representative Payees with Dedicated Accounts

GN 00605.205: Systems Selection and DI Diary Set

GN 00605.208: DI Diary and the Redetermination/Limited Issue Process

GN 00605.215: Complete, Mail, and Retain SSA-6233-BK

GN 00605.220: What the Questions Mean

GN 00605.221: How to Evaluate Payee Responses to Annual Accounting Questions, Relationship, and Signature

GN 00605.222: How to Evaluate Payee Response That A Dedicated Account Was Never Established

GN 00605.223: How to Evaluate Payee Response About Deposits in Dedicated Account

GN 00605.224: How to Evaluate Payee Responses About Use of Dedicated Account Funds

GN 00605.225: How to Evaluate Payee Response About Balance in Dedicated Account

GN 00605.230: Required Posteligibility (PE) Actions to Update the Supplemental Security Record (SSR)

GN 00605.235: Payee Fails to Respond to SSA-6233-BK

GN 00605.240: Representative Payee Report of Benefits and Dedicated Account

GN 00605.250: Title II Final Accounting Selection Criteria

GN 00605.352: Title XVI and Concurrent Final Accounting Selection Criteria

GN 00605.354: Title XVI and Concurrent Final Accounting Responsibilities

GN 00605.360: Preparation of the Representative Payee Report Form

GN 00605.365: Title XVI and Concurrent Return and Review of the Final Accounting Form

GN 00605.370: Title XVI and Concurrent Handling of Conserved Funds When a Payee Changes

GN 00605.375: Processing Cases When a Final Accounting is Not Required

GN 00605.385: Review and Input of Conserved Funds Returned to SSA

GN 00608: Foreign Claims - Use and Accountability

GN 00608.000: Foreign Claims - Use and Accountability - Table of Contents

GN 00608.010: Payee Accountings Outside the United States

GN 00608.020: Final Accountings - Foreign Claims

GN 00608.030: Accounting Form for Foreign Claims

GN 00608.040: Evaluation of the SSA-7161-OCR-SM: Accounting Questions

GN 00608.042: Evaluation of SSA 7161-OCR-SM — Item 7-Custody of the Beneficiary

GN 00608.044: Evaluation of SSA 7161-OCR-SM — Item 8-Conduit Payee Information

GN 00608.046: Evaluation of SSA 7161-OCR-SM — Item 9-Use of Benefits

GN 00608.048: Evaluation of SSA 7161-OCR-SM — Item 10-Manner in Which Funds are Held

GN 00608.050: Exhibit, Form SSA-7161 (Report to United States Social Security Administration)