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

SITUATION After a recoupment that would make a household homeless, TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated is the working evidence for issuance-system integrity manager in a Medicaid agency with a surge in MAGI mismatches. Decide whether to brief the legislature with a number that will survive audit using only what TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated actually supports.

DECISION Issuance-system integrity manager in a Medicaid agency with a surge in MAGI mismatches must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after a recoupment that would make a household homeless.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Issuance-system integrity manager can defend Pay or continue from TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after a recoupment that would make a household homeless in a Public Benefits challenge. 2. Issuance-system integrity manager cannot defend Pay or continue from TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated; Recoup is what the extract actually supports after a recoupment that would make a household homeless. 3. A recoupment that would make a household homeless never reached the population in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated — reopen intake, do not close to brief the legislature. 4. Two facts in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after a recoupment that would make a household homeless conflict for issuance-system integrity manager; hold this Recoupment and Policy file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test eligibility, recoupment, and improper-payment facts in TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after a recoupment that would make a household homeless. 2. Quantify overpayment if to brief the legislature is wrong. 3. Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a Medicaid agency with a surge in MAGI mismatches. 4. For this Public Benefits Recoupment and Policy file, read TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated against a recoupment that would make a household homeless and write the one fact that would move to brief the legislature for issuance-system integrity manager.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Public Benefits / Recoupment and Policy packet (TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated after a recoupment that would make a household homeless). If TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated cannot force a Public Benefits label under Recoupment and Policy, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a Medicaid agency with a surge in MAGI mismatches does not have.

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 issuance-system integrity manager - Hypothesis scorecard against TANF work-hours that cannot be corroborated: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes to brief the legislature 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