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MS 0730 (1) Volume 1 - General Administration MS 0730 - R. 12/1/16 - OMTL-510 Electronic Disqualified Recipient Subsystem (eDRS) The Electronic Disqualified Recipient Subsystem (eDRS) is a national database of all individuals disqualified due to an Intentional Program Violation (IPV) in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). IPV disqualifications must be entered on the Worker Portal in order to track occurrences and to allow the matches of out-of-state disqualification information. The eDRS system sends and retrieves data via real time web service interface to transmit SNAP IPV disqualification information. A. [Effective March 16, 2016, staff in the Division of Family Support (DFS) who are working from the Program Integrity queue will receive eDRS tasks via the Worker Portal for disqualifications entered by other states. An eDRS query will be sent for each adult household member requesting SNAP benefits on Worker Portal at application, recertification, and at member add, if the new member is age 18 or older. If the query results in a match: 1. An eDRS task is created and sent to the Program Integrity queue. The disqualification details will automatically populate the IPV screen. This will provide the details of the IPV disqualification, including occurrence, decision date, start date, and length of the disqualification. Contact information for the originating state is also provided. 2. The worker starting the task must contact the originating state to request documentation of the IPV. In order to enter the IPV in the Worker Portal, one of the four types of supporting documentation must be obtained; either: a. A signed waiver of an Administrative Disqualification Hearing (ADH); b. An ADH order; c. A deferred adjudication agreement; or d. A court order. The document will verify the disqualification time period and how the IPV was determined. 3. The originating state has 20 days to provide the documentation. Non- expedited cases will not dispose until after the 20th day in order to allow time for the verification to be obtained. a. For cases meeting expedited criteria, process the case without the IPV verification and document in comments that information relating to an out-of-state IPV has been requested but not provided by the originating state. b. For cases not meeting expedited criteria, if the documentation is not received by the 20th day or by the 10th day for a member add, process the case without the information and document in comments that information