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MS 1030 (1) Volume 1 – General Administration MS 1030 – R. 7/1/21 – OMTL-580 How to Calculate a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Claim For each month that a household is suspected of receiving an overpayment, determine the correct amount of SNAP benefits, if any, the household was entitled to receive. Use the policy in effect at the time the claim occurred. When calculating a SNAP claim, the worker is only required to verify and use new information that was not considered when the benefits were authorized. The worker is not required to re-verify all factors pertaining to the household. Exception: All errors found during any SNAP case review, including Management Evaluation (ME) and Quality Control (QC) reviews, must be corrected to ensure that the basis of issuance is correct based on the review findings. All claims are calculated on the Benefit Recovery module. A. Date of Discovery: 1. Agency Error (AE) claims cannot be calculated for more than 12 months prior to the date of discovery. If the claim also extended into the discovery month or subsequent months, these months are included in the claim period. Example: It is discovered in February 2005 that a household received excess benefits for the period January 2004 through March 2005. A change was completed to correct benefits effective April 2005. The claims months are February 2004 through January 2005 (12 prior months), with the discovery month of February. January 2004 is not a claim month since it is more than 12 months prior to the discovery date. 2. Inadvertent Household Errors (IHE) with a Suspected Intentional Program Violation (SIPV), Inadvertent Household Errors (IHE), and Intentional Program Violation (IPV) cannot be calculated for more than six years prior to the discovery date. If an SIPV claim is not determined to be fraud by admission, hearing, or prosecution, it must be recalculated as an IHE or AE claim. B. Household Composition When establishing a claim containing household members that are not active during the entire time frame of the claim, establish separate claims containing the appropriate active household members. Example 1: A claim contains three adult household members for the period of January through June. The head of household (HOH) is an active member for the entire six months of the certification period. The second adult household member was only an active member of the case from March to April. The third adult household member was only an active member of the case from May to June. Three