PURPOSE: This rule sets guidelines for compensation to public administrators and applies to all department facilities designated as representative payee for client entitlements when the public administrator is guardian.

1. (1) A facility shall debit a client's personal account and shall compensate a public administrator seventy-five dollars ($75) annually, which may be paid in equal monthly installments, from the client's personal 9 CSR 25-3

account when all of the following conditions have been met:

1. (A) The client has been served by the department for at least six (6) months;
2. (B) The department facility is representative payee for Social Security Administration (SSA), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), veterans' benefits; railroad retirement benefits; civil service annuities; federal, state or city retirement programs or any other retirement or benefit program;
3. (C) The public administrator has requested compensation and there are no other funds available to pay the requested compensation;
4. (D) The court has allowed the compensation;
5. (E) The payment for the compensation is not prohibited by the benefit program which will be used to pay the requested compensation; and
6. (F) If the expenditure would place the client in present or future jeopardy or adversely affect the services to the client, the facility with administrative control of the client account shall consult legal counsel as to whether a modification of the court order shall be sought.

1. (2) A public administrator whose expenses are in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75) annually may submit documentation of expenditures to the representative payee facility for consideration. If the client's personal account is sufficient and the additional expenditures will not deplete the account or place the client in any present or future jeopardy, or in any way adversely affect services to the client, the facility staff may reimburse additional expenses from the personal account if the excess expenses are reasonable and justifiable in the judgment of the assistant superintendent of administration or assistant center director of administration and the client's total personal monies are at least three hundred seventy-five dollars ($375) in the previous fiscal year.
2. (3) The public administrator request for compensation shall be directed to the responsible facility's assistant superintendent of administration or assistant center director of administration.

AUTHORITY: section 630.050, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed Feb. 1, 1988, effective June 27, 1988.

* Original authority 1980, amended 1993.