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County staff proposes consolidating 206 Social Security payee accounts to improve reconciliation
Summary
Jessica Bowes, community service director, told the board she recommends moving 206 individual Social Security representative-payee accounts into one collective account to improve auditability and avoid problems when accounts close after a client's death; board asked for further implementation details before formal change.
Jessica Bowes, Muscatine County Community Service Director, asked supervisors on Feb. 16 for direction to proceed with studying a consolidation of Social Security representative-payee accounts.
Bowes said the county currently manages 206 individual payee accounts in its role as payee and that moving them into a single collective account would simplify monthly reconciliation and reporting. She said the county…
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