Front Matter -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction: The Representative Payee Program -- 2 Representative Payees and Their Beneficiaries -- 3 Performance of Representative Payees -- 4 Defining and Discovering Misuse -- 5 New Approaches to Detect Misuse -- 6 Program Policies and Practices -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Westat Survey Methodology and Survey Questionnaires -- Appendix B Program Questions to and Answers from the Social Security Administration -- Appendix C Guardianship Questions to and Responses from the Social Security Administration -- Appendix D In-Depth Study of Misuse -- Appendix E Current Annual Accounting Form -- Appendix F Proposed Representative Payee Annual Report -- Appendix G Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff.