- (a) Protective payment will be authorized by the County Administrator upon recommendation of the Economic Services Supervisor or his or her designee.
(b)
- (1) Form DCO-195, Request for Protective Payee Approval, will be used by the county office to recommend a person to act as the protective payee.
- (2) It will also be used by the County Administrator to authorize a protective payee request.
(c)
- (1) Once authorization of the protective payee is received, the worker will notify the participant via Form DCO-1 that the transitional employment assistance (TEA) payment will be changed to a protective payment.
- (2) This notice must meet the requirements of a timely and adequate notice and will include the name of the protective payee.
(d)
- (1) The worker will complete Form DCO-56 changing the payee to the protective payee and showing all appropriate data to reflect the protective payee status of the case.
- (2) The protective payee’s name will go in the guardian field of the Form DCO-56.