Assess whether to recoup, waive, or refer for prosecution (afa246)

SITUATION Identity-proofing exception queue arrived with a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms for SNAP trafficking investigator. That is a Public Benefits Recoupment and Policy decision on to recoup, waive, or refer in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation.

DECISION SNAP trafficking investigator in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation must choose To recoup, waive, / Refer for prosecution using identity-proofing exception queue after a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms is noise around an already-controlled Recoupment and Policy process in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation, given identity-proofing exception queue. 2. A TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms is the event in identity-proofing exception queue that forces To recoup, waive, for SNAP trafficking investigator under Public Benefits. 3. Identity-proofing exception queue shows a one-file miss after a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms, not a Recoupment and Policy program failure. 4. Identity-proofing exception queue cannot decide to recoup, waive, or refer yet after a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms; hold is the only Public Benefits close a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation. 2. Match household facts in identity-proofing exception queue to the rule that pays the benefit. 3. Trace the notice and appeal path SNAP trafficking investigator must preserve. 4. For this Public Benefits Recoupment and Policy file, read identity-proofing exception queue against a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms and write the one fact that would move to recoup, waive, or refer for SNAP trafficking investigator.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To recoup, waive, / Refer for prosecution on this Public Benefits / Recoupment and Policy packet (identity-proofing exception queue after a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms). 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 recoup, waive, or refer, then the evidence in identity-proofing exception queue, then the action for SNAP trafficking investigator - Hypothesis scorecard against identity-proofing exception queue: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes to recoup, waive, or refer if a TANF case with unsigned work-activity forms is later withdrawn - Named option among To recoup, waive,, Refer for prosecution and the fact that kills the others