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Title II RIB's were usually a breeze to process. You could actually like the people that filed. Representative payees were something else. They had a set of guidelines. Close family member, concerned neighbor, state agency, etc, etc. Always a bone of contention as to who got the check. Spent untold hours developing the case to make some DAC his own payee. Mother dead set against it, state agency for it. Remember the mother coming in some months later.... said the DAC had spent his entire monthly check on candy bars. Spent untold hours getting the mother back as the Rep Payee.

It was always like that. 5% of the claims took 90% of the time.

Title XVI, SSI.... hope nobody ever has to go to that. Sometimes, you'd have a title II low WE that was entitled to a small additional benefit under title XVI. Maybe $5 or $10 extra per month. You had to let them know it...and yet...you tried to let them know what it would cost.....complete financial disclosure, auditing of all monthly expenditures, incomes, anything financial that might affect their eligibility. You hoped and prayed they'd see the light (he, he, once in a while somebody that knew another on it actually did), but most of the time they'd opt for it. After the first yearly redetermination they usually saw the light.