Questions and Answers Regarding Personal Representatives
This pamphlet describes the role of a personal representative of an estate, as well as other information regarding the probate process.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
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Social Security Representative Payment Program
(Separate Website)
The Representative Payment Program provides financial management for Social Security and SSI payments of beneficiaries who are incapable of managing their payments. Here you can find detailed information about the program and answers to frequently-asked questions.
By: Social Security Administration
Legal Services for Seniors Legal services are provided statewide by Alaska Legal Services Corporation to residents that are at least 60 years of age. Services that can be provided are income maintenance, housing, health care, wills, consumer issues, and information and referrals. View the brochure to find out more.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Eldercare Management Offering basic accounting services for senior citizens, including balancing checkbooks and tracking medical claims.
By: Medical Claims Service
Information for Family Caregivers
This document is for family caregivers (people who are responsible for a disabled or elderly family member). Here you can find information about guardianship, conservatorship, power of attorney, and durable power of attorney. Available in Word or PDF format. If you choose PDF, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the file.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
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Consumer Concerns for Older Americans
(Separate Website)
Seniors are bombarded with advertisements, phone calls, and pitches from door-to-door salespeople insisting that living trusts work best for everyone. This may be true for some. For others, buying a living trust is simply a waste of limited resources.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Retirement and Eldercare
(Separate Website)
General information about retirement plans, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, "medigap" insurance, managed care, long-term care, estate planning and health care power of attorneys and living wills.
By: Nolo Plain-English Law Centers
The Well Project
(Separate Website)
Information for women living with HIV and AIDS, their caregivers, and their health care providers.
By: The Well Project, Inc.
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Spanish / Espaņol
When People Need Help Managing Their Money
(Separate Website)
The Social Security Administration provides for a Representative Payee program to help those who cannot manage their SS or SSI funds themselves. Here you will find information for both the beneficiary and the representative payee.
By: Social Security Administration
BenefitsCheckUp
(Separate Website)
BenefitsCheckUp helps find programs for people ages 55 and over that may pay for some costs of prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services. Information from this site requires filling out a form.
By: National Council on the Aging
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