Client Benefits Coordination

Three staff members in the Center’s Administrative Services Department spend 100 percent of their time coordinating client benefits. They are responsible for managing the SSI funds of approximately 900 clients for whom the Regional Center is the representative payee. These are clients who are unable to manage their own finances and have no family or other appropriate representatives able or willing to help them with this responsibility. These three staff members currently manage more than $8.5 million in clients’ funds. They also manage the processing of applications for supplemental Security income, Medi-Cal, and other programs for these 900 consumers as well as the annual re-determination of eligibility.

Staff members in this same department also do fiscal monitoring to ensure that the funds received by service providers are appropriately spent and that the bills submitted to the Center are accurate. The overall mission of the Accounting Department — careful stewardship of funds entrusted to the RegionalCenter — is critical to maintaining the fiscal
health of the Developmental Services system.