Assess whether identity proofing exceptions are being abused (983395)

SITUATION A state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave cannot treat a recoupment that would make a household homeless as incidental context on housing overlapping-address and income file. Housing-subsidy fraud investigator must close identity proofing exceptions are from that extract under Public Benefits / Compliance and Integrity Operations.

DECISION Housing-subsidy fraud investigator in a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using housing overlapping-address and income file after a recoupment that would make a household homeless.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Housing overlapping-address and income file reads as Pay or continue once a recoupment that would make a household homeless is lined up to the same Public Benefits population. 2. Housing overlapping-address and income file is closer to Recoup after a recoupment that would make a household homeless; Pay or continue would over-claim this Compliance and Integrity Operations extract. 3. Deny is still live in housing overlapping-address and income file for housing-subsidy fraud investigator in a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave. 4. Housing overlapping-address and income file is missing the fact housing-subsidy fraud investigator needs after a recoupment that would make a household homeless; stop this Public Benefits close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave. 2. Match household facts in housing overlapping-address and income file to the rule that pays the benefit. 3. Trace the notice and appeal path housing-subsidy fraud investigator must preserve. 4. For this Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations file, read housing overlapping-address and income file against a recoupment that would make a household homeless and write the one fact that would move identity proofing exceptions are for housing-subsidy fraud investigator.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Public Benefits / Compliance and Integrity Operations packet (housing overlapping-address and income file after a recoupment that would make a household homeless). The follow-on Compliance and Integrity Operations action is what housing-subsidy fraud investigator does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Public Benefits option on identity proofing exceptions are, then the evidence in housing overlapping-address and income file, then the action for housing-subsidy fraud investigator - Hypothesis scorecard against housing overlapping-address and income file: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes identity proofing exceptions are if a recoupment that would make a household homeless is later withdrawn - Named option among Pay or continue, Recoup, Deny and the fact that kills the others