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Opportunity Homes offers supervision and training in independent living skills for people who experience a cognitive disability and/or chronic mental illness and live in their own apartments or homes in the community. Also provides representative payee services.

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Representative Payee Services
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

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Representative Payee Services
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

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Representative Payee Services
Growth Financial Services is a subsidiary of Central Iowa Shelter and Services. The program provides a payee service to those who struggle with maintaining their finances. Works to help bring self-sufficiency by teaching budgeting and financial management while utilizing the payee service.
A representative payee is an individual or organization appointed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to receive Social Security and/or SSI benefits for someone who cannot manage or direct someone else to manage his or her money. The main responsibilities of a payee are to use the benefits to pay for the current and foreseeable needs of the beneficiary and properly save any benefits not needed to meet current needs. A payee must also keep records of expenses. When SSA requests a report, a payee must provide an accounting of how benefits were used or saved.
Assists in developing and/or maintaining money management skills.
Services offered by the Adult Services program include:
  • Transportation assistance for low-income disabled Polk County residents and individuals 60 & over whom have no other means.
  • A home delivered lunchtime meals for those unable to prepare a meal for themselves or transportation to a senior meal site.
  • Financial management and budget counseling for low-income individuals

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Representative Payee Services
Home Delivered Meals
Disability Related Transportation
Provides payee services to those persons determined by the Social Security Administration to be unable to manage monetary benefits.
Helps vulnerable individuals and families who live independently manage their finances.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

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Representative Payee Services

Rent and utilities assistance may be available. Must have an eviction notice for rent assistance, and must have disconnect notice for utility assistance. Does not help with first month's rent or security deposits for rental homes.

Indigent burial assistance (cremation).Payee services for Social Security/Disability recipients which uses funds to pay rent, utilities, nursing home. Assigned by courts or Social Security Administration.

Emergency food assistance (works through local food pantries). Does not offer food vouchers.

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General Relief
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Pantries
Rent Payment Assistance
Representative Payee Services
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Provides a payee for individuals needing help with their Social Security benefits.
Protective payee services public protective payee for persons who receive disability benefits from Social Security Administration, Veteran's Administration and/or Department of Human Services.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Any individual appointed as a Veterans Administration (VA) fiduciary is responsible for managing the beneficiary's VA income and ensuring the beneficiary's just debts are paid. Additional responsibilities of the fiduciary include but are not limited to the following: Utilizing the funds for daily needs, reporting changes to the fiduciary activity, keeping accurate and complete records and receipts, etc.
Provides the following services: Budget Counseling, Debt Management Plans, Credit Report Review, Voluntary Bill Paying Services, Bankruptcy Counseling and Education, Certified Housing Counseling Agency (Pre-purchase education, Default/foreclosure prevention, Loss Mitigation).

Education program helps with: Basic financial knowledge, Credit education, Pre-Purchase education and Checking account education.

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Housing Counseling
Representative Payee Services
Personal Financial Counseling
Debt Management
Financial Assessment Tools
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.
Manages the monthly incomes of various customers and consumers, to help develop financial management skills that are necessary for independent living. In addition to paying monthly bills, the staff assists individuals in developing budgets to ensure all of their needs are met.

Categories

Representative Payee Services

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Categories

Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Offers representative payee services to persons with chronic mental illness.
Matches trained and bonded volunteers with vulnerable adults who need help managing their finances.