Self-direction puts you in charge of choosing and managing Direct Care Professionals and scheduling the supports and services you want. PAS’ fiscal management services provides clerical, administrative, and payroll support that makes getting your services easier, so you can focus on what makes life enjoyable and rewarding. At PAS, we offer both Fiscal Management Services and Representative Payee Services.
Fiscal Management Services Programs
For each of these programs, our fiscal management services include:
- Maintaining an extensive database of in-home Direct Care Professionals who provide the services you need
- Coordinating enrollment paperwork for all Direct Care Professionals and participants
- Processing background checks for Direct Care Professionals
- Tracking time, processing timesheets and administering payments
- Providing electronic timesheet submission
- Withholding and filing applicable payroll taxes for you and your Direct Care Professional(s)
- Reporting and filing taxes
- Maintaining complete records related to your services
- Communicating with your Care Manager and others to assist you as your needs change
- Providing access to payroll reports through our web portal
- Supporting compliance with State and Federal rules and regulations
- Providing Workers Compensation for your Direct Care Professional(s), if necessary
Representative Payee Services
Our services as a Representative Payee include:
- Determining the beneficiary’s needs and using their payments to meet those needs
- Saving any money left after meeting the beneficiary’s current needs in an interest-bearing account or savings bonds for the beneficiary’s future needs
- Reporting any changes or events which could affect the beneficiary’s eligibility for payments
- Keeping records of all payments received and how it was spent and saved
- Providing all records of how payments are spent or saved to the Social Security Administration upon request
- Reporting any changes that would affect performance or continuing as payee
- Completing reports, accounting for use of payments, as required
- Returning any payments to which the beneficiary is not entitled
- Returning to Social Security Administration any payments saved when we are no longer the representative payee for the beneficiary