Payee Services
&
Independent Life Skills (ILS)


A payee program provides assistance to individuals who are unable to manage their income benefits well enough to maintain their basic food, housing and clothing needs.
The Center for Disability Services is permitted to act as a Social Security Administration's (SSA) Organizational Payee for individuals who receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
The Center takes great pride in the way we work with the payee client to meet their needs, maintain their benefits, and teach fiscal responsibility.
Clients have the right to choose which agency provides their payee services.

Advantages
of choosing the
Center for Disability Services
as your payee service provider:
The Payee Clerk is supervised by the accounting department, ensuring proper fiscal management.

Both the Payee Clerk and the ILS staff person complete the “Training for Organizational Payees” from the Social Security Administration.

Clients are involved in preparing and maintaining their budget.

Client budgets are prepared so that the client will receive spending money each week, not in a lump sum after expenses have been paid.

Clients are encouraged to save money for future special activities or purchases like new furniture, appliances, or birthday and Christmas gifts.

Clients may reach their agency representative Monday through Friday by telephone.

Account Maintenance

Each client has their own bank account; funds are not mixed in a general “payeeship” account.

Payee accounts are established with the notation at the bank and on the check front that the Center for Disability Services is payee for the account.

Client income is direct deposited except in very rare occasions.

Detailed records are maintained of each income and expenditure.

Accounts are balanced each month with the bank statement by the Accounting Department.

No staff member is permitted to balance an account on which they hold signing privileges.

No member of the Accounting Department staff is permitted to be a signer on payee accounts.

Independent Life Skills
(ILS)

Individuals who receive payee services and do not receive homemaker and personal care services through the Licking County Board of Developmental Disabilities may qualify for Independent Life Skills assistance. ILS may occasionally assist payees with shopping or serve as an advocate.

75 South Williams St
Newark, OH 43055
(740) 344-2995 cds@centerds.org

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