Assess whether to recoup, waive, or refer for prosecution from recoupment

SITUATION The working file is recoupment aging versus collectability after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error. TANF work-requirement monitor in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation has to name To recoup, waive, or Refer for prosecution for this Public Benefits Trafficking and Eligibility Fraud file.

DECISION TANF work-requirement monitor in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation must choose To recoup, waive, / Refer for prosecution using recoupment aging versus collectability after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize To recoup, waive, now; recoupment aging versus collectability already has the discriminator after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error. 2. Keep Refer for prosecution in force until recoupment aging versus collectability is completed after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error for TANF work-requirement monitor. 3. Treat recoupment aging versus collectability as To recoup, waive, because both readings appear after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error. 4. Refuse a Public Benefits close: TANF work-requirement monitor does not have the decision to recoup, waive, or refer turns on in recoupment aging versus collectability.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test eligibility, recoupment, and improper-payment facts in recoupment aging versus collectability after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error. 2. Quantify overpayment if to recoup, waive, or refer is wrong. 3. Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation. 4. For this Public Benefits Trafficking and Eligibility Fraud file, read recoupment aging versus collectability against a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error and write the one fact that would move to recoup, waive, or refer for TANF work-requirement monitor.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To recoup, waive, / Refer for prosecution on this Public Benefits / Trafficking and Eligibility Fraud packet (recoupment aging versus collectability after a MAGI mismatch that could be a household-size coding error). If recoupment aging versus collectability cannot force a Public Benefits label under Trafficking and Eligibility Fraud, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Public Benefits option on to recoup, waive, or refer, then the evidence in recoupment aging versus collectability, then the action for TANF work-requirement monitor - Hypothesis scorecard against recoupment aging versus collectability: supported / rejected / untestable - Named option among To recoup, waive,, Refer for prosecution and the fact that kills the others - Owner and next date for TANF work-requirement monitor in a TANF office with thin work-participation documentation