Assess whether to brief the legislature with a number that will survive audit

SITUATION Issuance file-control totals that will not balance arrived with a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE. SNAP trafficking investigator in a housing authority with overlapping subsidy households still has an evidence gap on whether to brief the legislature with a number that will survive audit.

DECISION SNAP trafficking investigator in a housing authority with overlapping subsidy households must choose Pay or continue, Recoup, Deny, Hold using issuance file-control totals that will not balance after a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE. The question on that file is whether to brief the legislature with a number that will survive audit.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE is noise around an already-controlled Compliance and Integrity Operations process in a housing authority with overlapping subsidy households, given issuance file-control totals that will not balance. 2. A CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE is the event in issuance file-control totals that will not balance that forces Pay or continue for SNAP trafficking investigator under Public Benefits. 3. Issuance file-control totals that will not balance shows a one-file miss after a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE, not a Compliance and Integrity Operations program failure. 4. Issuance file-control totals that will not balance cannot decide to brief the legislature yet after a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE; hold is the only Public Benefits close a housing authority with overlapping subsidy households can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Quantify overpayment if to brief the legislature is wrong. 2. Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a housing authority with overlapping subsidy households. 3. Match household facts in issuance file-control totals that will not balance to the rule that pays the benefit. 4. For this Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations file, read issuance file-control totals that will not balance against a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE and write the one fact that would move to brief the legislature for SNAP trafficking investigator.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Public Benefits / Compliance and Integrity Operations packet (issuance file-control totals that will not balance after a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE). The follow-on Compliance and Integrity Operations action is what SNAP trafficking investigator does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Public Benefits option on to brief the legislature, then the evidence in issuance file-control totals that will not balance, then the action for SNAP trafficking investigator - Hypothesis scorecard against issuance file-control totals that will not balance: supported / rejected / untestable - Compliance and Integrity Operations finding in issuance file-control totals that will not balance that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in issuance file-control totals that will not balance after a CDR where treating-source evidence conflicts with a CE, if any