Assess whether a household is receiving duplicate subsidies (45fa91)

Situation

In a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave, retailer trafficking red-flag report is the evidence after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path. Housing-subsidy fraud investigator has to pick Pay or continue or Recoup for this Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations close using retailer trafficking red-flag report.

Decision

Housing-subsidy fraud investigator in a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using retailer trafficking red-flag report after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path.

Hypotheses to test

• Authorize Pay or continue now; retailer trafficking red-flag report already has the discriminator after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path.
• Keep Recoup in force until retailer trafficking red-flag report is completed after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path for housing-subsidy fraud investigator.
• Treat retailer trafficking red-flag report as Deny because both readings appear after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path.
• Refuse a Public Benefits close: housing-subsidy fraud investigator does not have the page a household is receiving turns on in retailer trafficking red-flag report.

Analysis required

• Quantify overpayment if a household is receiving is wrong.
• Separate a case-level error from a program-design failure in a state SNAP agency after an EBT skimming wave.
• Match household facts in retailer trafficking red-flag report to the rule that pays the benefit.
• For this Public Benefits Compliance and Integrity Operations file, read retailer trafficking red-flag report against an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path and write the one fact that would move a household is receiving for housing-subsidy fraud investigator.

Recommendation

Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Public Benefits / Compliance and Integrity Operations packet (retailer trafficking red-flag report after an identity-proofing vendor outage that opened a manual path). The follow-on Compliance and Integrity Operations action is what housing-subsidy fraud investigator does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.