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Sending Refund Check to Parents of Minor
I work for a medical services provider. The account guarantor overpaid the patient amount due for a medical visit. The visit was for a minor. In the accounting system, the registration clerk failed to enter the name of the parent and the payment was a cash payment. Can we send the refund check to the home address with a payee of "TO THE PARENT OF BETTY BOOP"? If we do this, can Betty's mom or dad cash the check that we send? We would have tried calling first, but the registrar also failed to enter a home telephone number. This is a regular situation in the medical industry. I am in Florida, but have not found any reg that addresses this in the unclaimed property statutes. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
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 Did your incompetent clerk at least obtain the patient's mailing address? If so, make the check payable to the patient. Kids do get checks all the time, from doting grandmothers and cheek-pinching aunts, for birthdays, holidays, Bar Mitzvahs and First Communions. Somehow they manage to turn those checks into real money. If you issue the check payable to the minor, you can let his/her parents or guardians figure out how to cash it, and you will have discharged your responsibility.
Published on BankingQuestions.com 12/10/08
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