Inviting Fraud: Has the Social Security Administration Allowed Some Payees To Deceive the Elderly and Disabled?
May 2, 2000
About 6.5 million recipients of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits must have help managing their money. The Social Security Administration appoints representative payees to receive and manage these beneficiaries' payments. In several cases, these organizations have used thousands of dollars of the beneficiaries' money for their own use, leaving the beneficiaries in their care destitute. This hearing will explore this problem. Senator Grassley will introduce a bill to protect the beneficiaries who could be targets of fraud by organizational representative payees.
Date: May 2, 2000
Time: 10:00 a.m.
562 Dirksen
Statements of Committee Members
- Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa
Witness Testimony Panel 1:
- Theresa King, (former organizational representative payee), Convicted Felon, Federal Corrections Institution, Tallahassee, Florida
- Betty Byrd , (formerly served by an organizational representative payee convicted of Social Security fraud and theft of government funds), Martinsburg, West Virginia
- Susan Daniels , Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner, Disability and Income Security Programs, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC
- John Huse, Jr. , Inspector General, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC
Hearing Publications
- Committee on Aging Print: 106-28