Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Social Services
 
Board
State Board of Social Services
 
chapter
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [22 VAC 40 ‑ 601]
Action SNAP Certification Periods
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 11/10/2010
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10/27/10  2:20 pm
Commenter: Dennis Shearin, Lynchburg DSS

SNAP Interim Reporting/Certification Periods
 

The Interim Reporting requiremnt should be eliminated.  It is not client or Benfit Programs Specialist friendly and cause Quality Assurance errors and delayed receipt of benefits for the client.  There is also an additional expense to the agency in time spent by the BPS processing, copying, remailing and the postage cost involved.  Certification periods should run for a year with no monthly or interim reporting requirement.  Keep the current requirement for clients to report changes.  That is their personal responsibility and they need to be held accountable for not reporting mandated changes.

CommentID: 14512