Mom's in nursing home. What address should I put on her checks?

Do not put her name at the nursing home. All mail will be lost. God forbid. I am a power of attorney and what I would do is this:

Name of patient (mother's name)
c/o My name, I am the POA (show my name)
My address

And I would have an account set up with the bank accordingly.
Name of patient, c/o my name, POA, my address.

Sign checks with your name. Underneath write, POA for name of
patient. Never, ever had a problem.

Imho, NEVER put the NH's address.

Put her reg address on there. Not nursing home! You can call & get important bills/checks/info sent to you. Get the mail forwarded to you or get a p.o.box to keep mail safe. Post office will ask you for poa paperwork. Make sure you take it with you. You can do it online but make sure you go in to that post office, and give them paperwork. Bc its illegal otherwise. Dont let mail build up in mailbox. My parents had their mail stolen mult times. It was someone looking for checks. So I had to forward it. Also they will not forward the taxes. Get them to send that to you. That is important bc a neighbor can pay that and try to do adverse possession/quick deed. You want to call her tax office immediately. Dont let that one go.

Do not leave that house vacant!!! Believe me the neighbors know and are watching. And do not EVER tell 1 neighbor anyone is in the hospital/not there!!!!!! EVER. They will tell all the neighbors and go over and break in looking for valuables. And more than 1x. They will keep coming back knowing they aren't going to get caught. I had them doing it weekly until I out cameras up. They would do it early morn/late at nite.

My sibling said she was poa/executor. No paperwork to prove it. Let parents property sit. Change out/leave diff vehicles and lights on/get timers. Get solar motion lights. Put up fake cameras or better yet real ones. Show up at diff times. Very early morning & late eve.
Do not turn heat/or elec off in house. If heat ever goes out it will rot the floors from moisture wicking up thru basement. Pipes will burst if heat not hi enuff. Shut water off. My sibling stopped paying bills for elec/heat. At least 2yrs maybe more. Entire first floor was rotted had to be replaced.

If house is paid for, you might not have home owners insurance. Make sure you do. They dont want to insure a vacant property. Get someone to rent it or live there. Spend a night or 2 there every once in awhile if you can. Make it look like someone is there. Leave a TV on at night. Put on timer.
I am having all sorts of problems with neighbors. Since they assumed it was abandoned.
You might want to get car insurance canceled. See what is coming automatically out of checking account and get it canceled. You could be hemoraging money from automatic bills no longer needed. My sibling had car insurance, phone/wifi coming out of checking for yrs. Dont let moms car sit. It might not start. It will pay for her care. Move car around on the property. In garage, close to house, out towards street etc. Cars sitting will get mice too. These are things people don't think about. Get roof of house checked. The shingles needed to be replaced. Now there is a roof leak. The elderly dont get house roof checked for probably last 20yrs of their life. They tend to let things go. And then poa get overwhelmed taking over bills, runs to hospital, nursing home trying to keep up.. Good luck.

I have all mail, checks, everything with my address. I’m PoA.

OP here. Thanks all! I didn't realize you didn't actually need an address on checks. I haven't written one myself for years.

I'll probably just continue to use her checks as they are and cross out the address and put mine. All her bills are done online and, ironically, the only check I write is for her nursing home bill. I think they know where to find her :)

Yes, put your address on the checks, credit cards and any other correspondence; make your address her permanent address. . It will prevent a lot of problems as time goes on, and you will be sure to get all of her mail instead of it being forwarded.

You don’t think you have to put an address on the checks but just a name. However if you want to probably best to use yours

I have been my mother’s POA since shortly after Dad passed away. Mom has dementia and has a habit of losing things (3 checkbooks; 3 sets of hearing aids, etc.). When we added my name to her account, we substituted my address. All her mail comes to me. She is now in AL and this has worked very well. I put her credit card and other few bills on autopay with my address as her legal address.

Omit the address. Unless they people the checks go to need her address, there is no need for that information to be on her checks.

I am a POA for Mom who is at ALF. I created a separate account for Mom’s expenses with my address on the checks. I have all mails coming to my house since I plan to sell Mom’s.

Can you pay those bills online? Better to do all transactions online. You can eat her banking info online and add you as a person to tranfer monies. You can also use her debit card as a credit card. I would not write checks for her at all. You can pay bills online or over the phone with het debit card.
If you must write a check, I would use your address. That way all correspondence comes to you.

I am in Vermont I have my dads name down then my name as guardian with my address. I was thinking the bank suggested it or I read it in one of the court check list ?
good luck

I didn’t have POA for most of the time my husband was in a rehab/nursing home. Various medical bills were sent there, however, and were not forwarded to me, which meant I never know about them until they had been sent into collections. (They got the address from the hospital, they said.) Don’t put the nursing home address on the checks!
As suggested, use her name,in care of you at your address.

I used my father's name at my address on everything he had. Mail that went to the assisted living was misplaced by him. I'd find a big stash of mail once every other month. Just safer to have everything sent to you.

Assuming your POA allows you to administer her bank account, you should order new checks with your address on them thus:

[Mrs Squatch33's Mother]
℅ Squelch33
Your address
Your address
Your zip code

Do you expect her to become permanently resident in the nursing home?

Your address. It will make it easier to pay bills and you also need to go ahead and have your name put on her checking and savings account. Because I will tell you as soon as she passes everything closes up unless your names on it you will not be able to touch a dime in that account to pay for anything that she may or may not owe our pay for the funeral or anything else. I learn remind mistakes.

Leave them as they are until you run out, then put your addresd

"Squatch33,"

When I took over my mom's finances after I moved her into an ALF in 2015, she had quite a few checks left. I didn't want to waste them because I also knew I couldn't just throw them in the garbage and they would have to be shredded. So I used them up by crossing out the old address and using my address stamper beside it.

Once I used them up and it was time to reorder, I had my address imprinted on them since I get and pay all her bills. I never have anything go to her facility. I only give her facility address to her siblings and when filling out paperwork for mobile doctors otherwise, I've done what you've done - I filled out a "change of address" form through the USPS in order for me to receive all her mail. I've never had a problem. Same went for the separate checking account I had to set up for her Social Security checks to be used for her rent payments when I had to apply to become her Representative Payee. Those checks have her name and my address on them and then I sign as her custodian.

Squatch33, I haven't had an address on my checks in over 30 years, neither did my parents even longer. Also, we never had our first or middle names on our checks, just initials.

I remember way back when one had their home address, their telephone number, and their social security number.

When it came time for me to handle my Dad's bills, Dad and I went to the bank where Dad asked the bank that I be a co-signed on his checks. Thus the new checks read "J. Benny or C. Benny Kadiddlehopper".

All of my Dad's mail was forward to me, and I did change of address to the important items. No mail to the senior facility as Dad thought every piece of mail was "junk mail" including bills :P

My life and place of residence was in such upheaval after caring for mom (never knew where I would be next or for how long) I stopped putting an address on my checks. They are still without address. I use them so infrequently now, only occasional through the mail. The checks are always accepted, without problem.

I don't think you even need to put an address on a check. But I would use the address the bills go to. I would not want any mail going to the NH.

I use LO’s legal signature, my legal signature, my mailing address.

Her other POA is still using her old address, but only writes one check/month.

No trouble either way, yet, but I think using her old address is wrong.

If there is a fee to order new checks I would just use the old ones and change the address to your address. It might actually be easier to bank on line. Checks will be electronically sent and you do not have to physically write a check or mail it.

All mail is currently forwarded to you. For her banking and check needs use your address, where all her financial work and bills go to and come from.

My hubs is PoA for his mom in a LTC facility. We have our address on her checks and have never had a problem with this. Or, you could put Mom's Name, c/o Your Name, your address.