<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Joan, true about the marriage record - but not a requirement. I was not doubting Sheri, I was adding details based on my personal knowledge of having taken and adjudicated all such applications for survivor benefits and payee applications and accountability reports. I have 28 years of experience with the administration. What surprises me is how much I actually remember from my work years, but not from my college years.<div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2011, at 9:33 PM, <a href="mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com">JYoung6180@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div>I never said the Rep Payee had to be a relative. The Rep Payee also doesn't
have to be the custodial guardian--although they often are. I am
saying that in all probability the marriage record would have been part of the
original file because it would establish beyond doubt who the legal father
is.</div>
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<div>In a message dated 1/9/2011 9:25:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:wilssearch@gmail.com">wilssearch@gmail.com</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Joan, if
the father's name is on the children's birth certificates, no further proof
would be required, married or not to the mother. When there are minor
children with no parent, a representative payee is appointed to receive
benefits until they are 18. I can't remember the year the law changed,
but at one time children could receive benefits up to the age of 22 if in full
time attendance in college. The law was later changed to graduation from
high school - age 19 at the latest.
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<div>As to who is appointed as rep payee as we called it - it depends on with
whom the children are living. If with a relative, that person would
probably be the payee. And yes they have to account to SSA as to how
they spent the money. If the children, for some reason, were in an
institution, then the institution could receive the benefits. </div>
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<div>All Sheri was saying is that the rep payee need not be a
relative.<br></div></font></blockquote></div></font></div>
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