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	Title		Date
	Field Op 2005-30: TAFDC, EAEDC and FS - Changes to the Non-Fradulent Overpayment Recalculation Process This Field Operations Memo informs TAO staff about a change in responsibility regarding who manually recalculates non-fraudulent overpayment amounts for Unintentional Program Violations (UPVs) based on appeal decisions.		8/1/2005
	Field Op 98-006 Centralizing Recoup. Procedures for FS + SSFSP		2/9/1998
	Field Op Memo 2006-24: Overpayment Referrals and Recoveries - TAFDC , EAEDC and FS Change in overpayment recovery thresholds.		5/19/2006
	Field Op Memo 2007-39: Food Stamp Program - Negative Errors (Underpayments) This Field Ops memo instructs workers on a range of "negative errors" including erroneous denials and potential underpayments, using examples where workers should not have asked for verification already in a file or erroneously calculated benefits. There are very important examples in this memo for advocacy work.		7/31/2007
	Food Stamps and Utility Expenses: Advocacy letters and CLE flier Attached are two updated documents and a Client Legal Education flier on FS and Utility Expenses. MLRI has received reports of Food Stamp recipients being underpaid because DTA did not consider their heating/cooling expenses or receipt of fuel assistance when calculating their food stamp amount. In order to get the case updated prospectively and request a restoration of lost benefits, advocates and/or FS recipients should write a letter to the Assistant Director of the DTA office. The attached documents can serve as templates for advocates and pro-se Food Stamp recipients when they are requesting a restoration of lost benefits. The files are labelled accordingly (for advocate or FS recipient).		6/5/2006
	FYI: Economic Stimulus Rebate can be intercepted for Food Stamp overpayments AU Managers are reminded that the federal government regularly intercepts certain federal payments made to clients and former clients - such as income tax refunds - to offset outstanding client food stamp debts. The federal Economic Stimulus payment described in Field Operations Memo 2008-18 is also subject to intercept for these debts. If a client calls inquiring about a reduction or loss of an Economic Stimulus payment, refer the client to the Fraud Investigations and Recoveries Unit at 1-800-462-2607 for information regarding the intercept.		5/1/2008
	Overpayment can not be recouped from child-- FNS response to complaint Marion Hohn and Katie Blake of WMLS secured a directive from the federal Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Dep't of Agriculture barring DTA from recovering a food stamp overpayment by reducing the allotment for the client's grandson. Attached is a client complaint that Marion submitted to the federal Food and Nutrition Service and the favorable response.		1/26/2007
	Overpayment Recovery - Sample notice of TOP recovery Sample notice announcing possible food stamp overpayment recovery from social security benefits though the TOP system (Treasury Offset Program)		11/3/2003
	Overpayment/Fraud- Food Stamp Benefits Repayment Obligation (CRU-OP1A/FS)		2/1/1998