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57 i. your certification period expires, in which case you may reapply and may be determined eligible for a new certification period; or ii. a change affecting your household's eligibility for SNAP benefits or the basis of issuance of SNAP benefits occurs before your hearing decision is issued and you fail to make a request for a fair hearing regarding a subsequent notice of adverse action; or iii. before the hearing decision is issued a mass change occurs which affects your household's eligibility for SNAP benefits or basis of issuance. (d) If your public assistance grant, child care services, or SNAP benefits are continued until a fair hearing decision is issued and you lose the fair hearing, the social services agency may recover the benefits or services which you should not have received. This subdivision does not apply to fair hearings to review the imposition of a work sanction under 18 NYCRR 351.2(i)(2), 18 NYCRR 385.12 and 18 NYCRR 385.13. (e) If you are involuntarily discharged from a tier II facility after requesting and participating in a hearing, held by the facility or the social services district in which the facility is located, and you request a fair hearing to review this determination, you do not have the right to remain at the facility pending the outcome of your fair hearing. 18 NYCRR 358-3.7 Examination of case record before the fair hearing. (a) 1. At any reasonable time before the date of your fair hearing and also at the fair hearing, you or your authorized representative have the right to examine the contents of your case record and all documents and records to be used by the social services agency at your fair hearing. 2. Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subdivision, the only exceptions to access to your case record are: i. those materials to which access is governed by separate statutes, such as records regarding child welfare, foster care, adoption or child abuse or neglect or any records maintained for the purposes of the Child Care Review Service; and, ii. those materials being maintained separately from public assistance files for the purposes of criminal prosecution and referral to the district attorney's office. This exception applies only to records which are part of an active and ongoing investigatory action; and, iii. the county attorney or county welfare attorney's files. 3. Case records secured by the Commission for the Visually Handicapped or by a local rehabilitation agency acting on behalf of such commission will not ordinarily be made available for examination since they contain information secured from outside sources; however, particular extracts will be furnished to you or your authorized representative when provision of such information will be beneficial to you. The case record, or any part thereof, admitted as evidence in a fair hearing shall be available for review by you or your authorized representative.