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Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program Serving Beneficiaries and Minimizing Misuse (2007) / Chapter Skim
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2 Representative Payees and Their Beneficiaries
Pages 28-35

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From page 28...
... (For details of the survey of payees and beneficiaries, see Appendix A.) SuRvEy SELECTION CRITERIA As described in Chapter 1, the population for the committee's survey was individual representative payees serving fewer than 15 beneficiaries and non-fee-for-service organizational payees serving fewer than 50 beneficiaries.
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From page 29...
... As a general rule, users can approximate a 95-percent confidence interval for the estimate by adding and subtracting two standard errors to the estimate. When two estimates have confidence intervals that overlap, the two estimates are not statistically different at the .05 level of significance.
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From page 30...
... their monthly benefit was less than $50, (2) benefit issuance date was missing, (3)
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... might be able to rely on the Internet for monitoring payee performance or to provide additional tools to assist representative payees. An estimated 61.3 percent (1.4)
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... These questions included the representative payee's income, sources of income, frequency of residential changes, and criminal record. The representative payees reported personal incomes significantly lower than the national average.
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... Some payees had criminal backgrounds, but in that regard they do not appear to be different from the national population. Nationally in 2001, an estimated 2.7 percent of adults in the United States had served time in prison (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004)
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... said they were in a special program addressing activities of daily living. Of those for whom compensated work was possible, 14.5 percent (2.3)
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From page 35...
... Somewhere else 0.3 (0.1) Total 100.0 NOTE: Numbers in parentheses are the standard errors of the estimates.
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