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[TANF WORK PROGRAM PAYMENT PROCESS] Revised 02-01-11 4. If the participant does not respond within thirty working days, initiate the recoupment process by reducing future TANF supportive service payments by twenty percent. Resource service providers will be required to repay the improper payment in full. However, if the resource service provider does not respond within thirty working days, 100% of future reimbursements will be withheld until the improper payment is paid in full. 5. If the participant/provider responds that he/she will pay back the overpayment from cash reserves or other income, advise that payments must be made by money order or cashier's check payable to "State Treasurer" and mailed to the Division of Budgets and Accounting. No personal checks will be accepted. The participants/provider’s name, social security number and case number (participant only), along with the notation "TWP" should be included on the money order or cashier's check. If the participant or provider requests a fair hearing, the supportive service payments will continue unchanged until the fair hearing decision is rendered. The participant or provider should be notified that if the hearing decision is not in his/her favor, any overpayment paid during the hearing process must be repaid to MDHS. When a TANF case has been closed and an outstanding overpayment remains at the time of reapplication, the overpayment may be recovered by a direct repayment or recoupment if the case becomes active again. In a recoupment situation, the overpayment record type (participation stipend, work stipend, etc.) will only be recovered from future benefit payments of the same type. Example: A work stipend overpayment will only be recovered from future work stipend payments. A work stipend overpayment will not be recovered from a future participation stipend payment. Under payments A participant or provider may also be underpaid as a result of client, provider, agency or other error. All requests for under payments are processed at the county or regional level by the case manager, case manager supervisor, regional director or regional program specialist. Refer to the JAWS User Manual, Chapter 15, Section 6, for the system procedures to process an underpayment for workrelated expenses and participation stipends. There are two PAYMENT TYPE codes associated with these types of TANF supportive service under payments. The payment type “C” is used to identify client payments and “S” is used to identify resource service vendor/provider