Section 388-827-0157 - What is a representative payee?(1) A representative payee is a person or entity that receives and manages your state supplementary payments on your behalf.(2) If the Social Security Administration assigned a representative payee to you, the developmental disabilities administration (DDA) will send your state supplementary payments to that representative payee.(3) If you do not have a representative payee and your wish to establish one: (a) You must nominate a person or entity to be your representative payee; and(b) DDA must confirm your nominee.(4) When deciding whether to confirm your nominee, DDA may consider: (a) The nominee's: (ii) Interest in your well-being;(iii) Understanding of your needs;(iv) Existing legal authority, if any, to act on your behalf; and(b) Any other information known to DDA.(5) If DDA declines to confirm the person or entity you nominated, DDA must send you written notice within thirty days of its decision.(6) A representative payee must: (a) Spend your state supplementary payment on your behalf;(b) Notify DDA of any changes in your circumstances that could affect your eligibility to receive a state supplementary payment;(c) Notify DDA of any change in the representative payee's ability to comply with this chapter;(d) Submit to DDA upon request a written account of how each state supplementary payment received on your behalf was spent; and(e) Accept liability for any overpayment under WAC 388-827-0400(3).Wash. Admin. Code § 388-827-0157
Adopted by WSR 17-13-022, Filed 6/12/2017, effective 7/13/2017