How do I go through the state if I want to take care of a family member ?

it depends how you want to take care of a family member make sure that person doesn't have alot of property and other ways of means to get this money depending on the type of thing your trying to do you need to contact the community services office to locate funds for the deceased if thats what you trying to do you didn't say and this also could call social security if the person was drawing it they pay 255 suppose to go up but when that happens they normally let the public know let me know if io was right on the kinda information your looking for