State Survey Analysis Report
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Topics or Activities for which State has Policies or Regulations
3. Please check all of the topics or activities listed below for which your State has policies or regulations in place for the program: steps involved in identifying improper payments, steps involved in verifying an improper payment, establishing claims for improper payments, collecting improper payments, distribution of recovered improper payments and sources of funding for addressing improper payments.
As can be seen in Exhibit 3 below, all State agencies report having policies or regulations in place in most of the following four areas: identifying, verifying, establishing claims, and/or collecting improper payments (AL, AZ, CA(DE), CA(DSS), CT, DC, GA, KS, KY, MD, MA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PR, UT, WA, WI, WV).
Exhibit 3. Topics or Activities for which State has Policies or Regulations |
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| State | Improper Payments | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying | Verifying | Establishing Claims |
Collecting | Recovery | Funding Source | Other | |
| Alabama | X | X | X | X | |||
| Arizona | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| California Department of Education | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| California Department of Social Services | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Connecticut | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| District of Columbia | X | X | |||||
| Georgia | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Kansas | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Kentucky | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Maryland | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Massachusetts | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Minnesota | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Mississippi | X | X | X | X | |||
| Missouri | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Montana | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Nebraska | X | X | X | X | |||
| New Hampshire | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| North Carolina | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Ohio | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Oklahoma | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Puerto Rico | X | X | X | X | |||
| Utah | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Washington | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| West Virginia | X | ||||||
| Wisconsin | X | X | X | ||||
| Total: | 22 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 16 | 13 | 7 |
Sixteen State agencies report having policies or regulations in place regarding the distribution of recovered improper payments (AZ, CA(DE), CA(DSS), CT, GA, KS, MD, MA, MN, MO, NH, NC, OH, OK, UT, WA).
Thirteen State agencies report having policies or regulations relating to sources of funding for addressing improper payments (AZ, CA(DE), CA(DSS), GA, KS, KY, MD, MN, MS, OH, OK, UT, WA).
Seven State agencies report having other policies or regulations in place (AZ, CT, KS, MT, NC, OH, OK[7]), including: penalties for parents or providers who commit intentional program violations (MT), program fraud (CT, NC), ineligibility penalties for un-repaid fraudulent overpayments (OH), changes in the child care computer system to automatically recoup improper payments (KS), and administrative rules relating to overpayments and the collection of overpayments (AZ). (See Appendix 3.)
[7] Oklahoma reports “other” in response to this question, but did not identify any specific policies or regulations.