State Survey Analysis Report

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IV. REPORT FORMAT

This reportis organized into the seven sections which comprised the Improper Payments Information Survey for the CCDF Programs:

• General Overview: Policies and Infrastructure
• Identification and Assessment of Improper Payments
• Describing Improper Payments: Sources, Types, Causes
• Prevention of Improper Payments
• Recovery of Improper Payments
• Fraud: Intentional Overpayments
• Other

Each section summarizes the question(s) pertinent to each topic area, followed by Exhibits and brief descriptions of cumulative and individual State agencies’ responses, as appropriate. Exhibit numbers correspond to survey question numbers.  The number of exhibits is not entirely sequential since some questions are not illustrated by an exhibit. The Appendix contains narrative responses too lengthy to be included in the main body of the report; The Appendix is organized by survey question; the numbering of the Appendix is not entirely sequential since some questions do not include an appendix.

It should be noted that States were invited to submit any information that they thought was useful and that partial responses were acceptable. Responses to many questions contain missing or incomplete data because States did respond to all questions or submitted partial answers. In the report, missing data or partial responses to questions are duly noted in all tables where appropriate.

This report refers to the 24 “State” respondents as 25 “State agency” respondents and uses the following abbreviations to identify States, the two California State agencies, and Territories.

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