General Relief Policy - Department of Public Social Services

EXAMPLE:
An approved individual receives the grant on
September 5. The individual enters a B&C facility on
September 21. The prorated B&C entitlement is
budgeted effective September 21. An overpayment
of 10 days (September 21 – September 30) is
recovered at the rate of $10 or 10% of grant,
whichever is greater. While in B&C , $10 per month
is collected (10% of the $20 personal, incidental and
clothing allowance is $2, since $10 is the greater
amount, $10 is deducted from the $20 per month). If
the individual leaves B&C for another type of living
arrangement, $10 or 10% of the new grant,
whichever is greater, is deducted from the
individual’s new grant amount.
GR 45-113.2 Receives
Income
How is an overpayment that is created when the
individual starts receiving income collected?
When an individual starts receiving income which
causes an overpayment, the case must be evaluated
to determine the reason for the overpayment.
Individual-related overpayments (fraud):
Individual-related overpayments are adjusted
manually by the Worker only from the individual’s
personal, incidental and clothing allowance as long
as the individual remains in a B&C facility.
EXAMPLE:
An individual had an uncollected fraud overpayment
of $44 prior to entering the B&C facility. The
overpayment may be adjusted by collecting the
entire amount of the personal, incidental and clothing
allowance until the overpayment is collected.
Vendor-related overpayments
EXAMPLE #1:
An individual receives UIB that causes a B&C
overpayment. The Worker contacts the B&C facility
and determines that the individual paid the facility the
UIB but the B&C facility did not report eh income.
Since this is vendor-related, SOS/VPU is responsible
for collecting the overpayment from the facility.
EXAMPLE #2: