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NO IT IS NOT!!!!
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I don't like the idea of someone strange paying bills. How many are there that someone needs to do this? I would make up an annual budget with dates for bills and how much, etc. I think someone "closer" with a vested interest should pay the bills. If you get someone to do this, have them send you all bills FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL BEFORE THEY GET PAID. A log must be kept. And you get statement of all income and all outgoing checks.
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I'll post about it separately at some point but we hired a bank to do this. You'd think a bank would have all sorts of ways to ensure that it's safe right?
Instead the bank employee let Mom's health insurance lapse and Dad's life insurance lapse in just her first year doing it.
She blamed it on everything but herself.
Before I found out (last July) that she'd let those payments lapse, I asked her repeatedly to update me/us on what she was accomplishing. We'd gotten no statements from her or any other sort of update. So, she finally set up a mtg with us.
In the mtg., she made a lot of vague comments about how great her team is, but never told us what she or they had gotten done. Mom and Dad told her they want to sell the only other property they own, because the loan and the upkeep are draining their accounts. They told the banker this THREE times.
So, the banker then says she'd like to get them to refinance it instead, through her bank of course, and even admitted the rate would not be lower.
Who in the heck tries to get a couple in their mid-90's to sign a refi on a house??!!
It was clear to us that everything she was trying to accomplish was self-serving and she was getting mad that I was getting in her way. My parents fired her then she sued them, claiming she was doing it out of "concern" for them.
No matter if it's an individual or a corporation, the temptation to abuse the elderly is too great.
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No, it is not safe to have others try to pay your bills, including family.

Even if you do it wrong, you are the only one who cares enough about your own finances to do it right, or if errors occur, to make it right.

This is my experienced opinion.
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