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Many months ago, around December 2021, I started a login.gov account for my mother when I was trying to assess her Social Security and finances for Medicaid issues, etc. She does not do email does not text etc. I used her information and set it up with an email that is in my name but separate for just her stuff. But I got to part where if you proceeded further it said it was illegal to set up an account for someone else. So I stopped because I got nervous. But now, she really could use online access with my help to apply for FEMA aid due to the hurricane. I am considering scrapping that account and just starting over. Actually, if I don’t find the passcode they sent me I will be forced to scrap the account and start over. Has anyone else had to do this for their parent?

I set it up while I was a guardian. Sit her down next to you to complete it. It works even with moderate memory loss with an ID at her bank
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When my mother was in nursing home, completely physically unable to do anything, my dad did multiple things like this, all with the guidance and blessing of the business manager. Sometimes it was forging her signature on necessary documents, sometimes accessing needed information. And no, the nursing home didn’t benefit at all. They had simply seen many residents and their families in need of information or documents with no good way to access them considering a completely disabled resident. There were never any repercussions in our family and we never heard of it with others. Can’t say it’s never happened but really doubt the government is chasing down family members trying to help in difficult circumstances
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I made the mistake of making an account for my father with my email account. Screwed things up for me later on when I needed and ID Me account. Had to make a gmail account for myself. I would make a gmail account for your mother then set up another login.gov account. I just walked my husband through doing his.
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I set up an email account for my dad and got him signed up. I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was helping him set it up to help me help him. He knew, understood and agreed to it.

Get her permission to do this and you are fine but, do an email account that is just "hers".
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