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

SITUATION TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated arrived with an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path for UI identity-fraud caseworker. That is a Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations decision on to brief the legislature in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation.

DECISION UI identity-fraud caseworker in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated reads as Pay or continue once an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path is lined up to the same Public Benefits population. 2. TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated is closer to Recoup after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path; Pay or continue would over-claim this Compliance and Integrity Operations extract. 3. Deny is still live in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated for UI identity-fraud caseworker in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation. 4. TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated is missing the fact UI identity-fraud caseworker needs after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path; stop this Public Benefits close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Match household facts in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated to the rule that pays the benefit. 2. Trace the notice and appeal path UI identity-fraud caseworker must preserve. 3. Test eligibility, recoupment, and improper-payment facts in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path. 4. For this Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations file, read TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated against an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path and write the one fact that would move to brief the legislature for UI identity-fraud caseworker.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Public Benefits / Compliance and Integrity Operations packet (TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path). The follow-on Compliance and Integrity Operations action is what UI identity-fraud caseworker 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 TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated, then the action for UI identity-fraud caseworker - Hypothesis scorecard against TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated: supported / rejected / untestable - Compliance and Integrity Operations finding in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path, if any