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ESA SNAP Policy Manual 253 23.4.1.4 Amount of the Claim Reduced by Compromise If the claimant meets the requirements listed in Section 23.4.1.2, What Claims May Be Compromised, the claim may be reduced to the amount the claimant may be expected to repay within three years. 23.4.1.5 Restoring Compromised Benefits to a SNAP Claim The SNAP claimant must comply with the repayment agreement. If the claimant fails to make a required repayment, ESA will void the compromise, and the claimant must repay the full amount of the overissuance. If the Office of Administrative Hearings or DC Superior Court later determines that a claim is the result of fraud or an IPV, ESA must restore any portion of a claim that was compromised to the full amount of the overissuance. 23.4.1.6 Restrictions on the Number of Compromises Only one compromise may be made on any individual SNAP claim. The amount of benefits that were compromised may not be recalculated even if the claimant’s income, expenses or household size changes. 23.4.1.7 Notification That a Compromise May Be Requested SNAP claimants will be sent notification when a SNAP claim is established, telling them that they may ask to have the overissuance reduced through compromise. 23.4.1.8 Restrictions on Consolidating Multiple Claims When Determining if a Compromise May Be Made Separate SNAP claims cannot be consolidated to determine whether all or a portion of the claimant’s combined debt may be compromised. A separate claim is defined as an overissuance for one month or two or more consecutive months that is the result of the same action or inaction of the claimant or ESA. Example Mr. Pondexter failed to report his wages from UPS timely. He was charged a SNAP overissuance for May 2018 through October 2018. Mr. Pondexter’s job terminated, and he failed to report when he began receiving unemployment benefits. He was charged an overissuance for December 2018 through April 2019. Mr. Pondexter’s overissuance cannot be combined because the months of the overissuance are not consecutive and the overissuances are based on two separate incidences of Mr. Pondexter’s failing to report changes of his income.
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