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12 through adult $89.00 (e)-(f) Reserved (g) Payment for services and supplies already received. Assistance grants shall be made to meet only current needs. Under the following specified circumstances payment for services or supplies already received is deemed a current need: 1. Replacement of lost or stolen checks. i. If an applicant or recipient reports to a local social services official that a check has been lost or stolen, an affidavit of loss must be required of the recipient, and payment of the check must be stopped. If the recipient has not already done so, he shall be required by the local social services official to report the loss or theft to the police, to obtain from them the blotter entry number, or classification number, or file number or other available evidence of the reporting, and to furnish such evidence to the local social services official. When satisfied that such police report has been made, the local social services official shall issue a replacement check to the recipient, on which there shall appear above the place for the recipient's signature, the following: "By endorsing or cashing this check I acknowledge that this is a replacement for a check, number __ dated __ drawn to my order on __ which was lost/stolen; that I have not received the proceeds of said check directly or indirectly; and that I have been informed it is illegal for me to cash said check, and if I do so, I am liable to prosecution." ii. If payment is not stopped on the original check and it and the replacement check are both cashed, only one shall be subject to State reimbursement, and the social services district shall limit its claim for State reimbursement to one of the two checks. iii. If it is established that a recipient endorsed and cashed an allegedly lost or stolen check which has been replaced, the amount of such check shall be recovered from the recipient as provided for by the provisions of the regulations of this department. 2. Replacement of electronic benefits. When a recipient claims that he or she has not received electronic cash public assistance benefits which the department's computer issuance record indicates were issued, the social services district must verify the validity of the computer issuance record in accordance with procedures established by the department. If it is verified that a valid issuance transaction occurred, the benefits cannot be replaced. If it is determined that a valid issuance transaction did not occur, the benefits must be restored in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.31(f). In accordance with Social Services Law § 152-D, Public Assistance recipients shall receive replacement assistance for the loss of benefits in instances when such assistance has been stolen as a result of card skimming, cloning, third party misrepresentation or other similar fraudulent activities. Replacement of benefits will occur after the local social services district has verified the public assistance was stolen in accordance with procedures established by the department. Replacement benefits will include the lesser of the amount of the public assistance stolen or the amount of public assistance equal to two months of the monthly allotment of the household prior to the date upon which the public assistance was stolen. Replacement assistance provided in accordance with this section is exempt from recoupment and recovery provisions