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

SITUATION Child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches arrived with an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control for SNAP trafficking investigator. That is a Public Benefits Recoupment and Policy decision on to brief the legislature in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation.

DECISION SNAP trafficking investigator in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches after an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. An issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control is noise around an already-controlled Recoupment and Policy process in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation, given child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches. 2. An issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control is the event in child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches that forces Pay or continue for SNAP trafficking investigator under Public Benefits. 3. Child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches shows a one-file miss after an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control, not a Recoupment and Policy program failure. 4. Child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches cannot decide to brief the legislature yet after an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control; hold is the only Public Benefits close a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation 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 TANF office with thin work-participation documentation. 3. Match household facts in child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches to the rule that pays the benefit. 4. For this Public Benefits Recoupment and Policy file, read child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches against an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control 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 / Recoupment and Policy packet (child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches after an issuance file that is 1,104 issuances over control). The follow-on Recoupment and Policy 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 child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches, then the action for SNAP trafficking investigator - Hypothesis scorecard against child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook Recoupment and Policy would cite - Recoupment and Policy finding in child-care attendance vs. school-calendar mismatches that a second reviewer can re-perform