(a) If the district director determines that the best interests of
a beneficiary are served thereby, the district director may certify the
payment of such beneficiary's benefits to a representative payee.
(b) Before any amount shall be certified for payment to any
representative payee for or on behalf of a beneficiary, such
representative payee shall submit to the district director such
evidence as may be required of his or her relationship to, or his or
her responsibility for the care of, the beneficiary on whose behalf
payment is to be made, or of his or her authority to receive such a
payment. The district director may, at any time thereafter, require
evidence of the continued
existence of such relationship, responsibility, or authority. If a
person requesting representative payee status fails to submit the
required evidence within a reasonable period of time after it is
requested, no further payments shall be certified to him or her on
behalf of the beneficiary unless the required evidence is thereafter
submitted.
(c) All benefit payments made to a representative payee shall be
available only for the use and benefit of the beneficiary, as defined
in Sec. 725.511.
