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1311 Chapter 8: Examples • Examples (07/2026) Example 8: Bo reaches out to their family coach requesting payment for past due phone bill in January 2025. Bo reports the cost was past due, as a result of the abuser no longer paying the phone bill. The past due bill is paid in January 2025. Bo reaches back out to their family coach again in March 2025 and asks for payment for past due phone bill again, as Bo is unable to meet the need that month. The family coach informs Bo that unfortunately this would be considered an ongoing/recurrent cost as the same payment was made in January and denies the payment. Example 9: Marty is in the office today and was approved for TA-DVS last month. Marty states that since fleeing from their abuser, they have been houseless and staying with their children in their car. It is getting colder outside and they want to use TA-DVS funds to stay in a hotel for a week. The survivor’s safety plan is to find employment and locate permanent safe housing. They plan to look for work and housing while in the hotel for a week. They report their abuser does not know they are in Oregon and there is no current safety concern coming from the abuser. The family coach informs Marty that it would be considered a non-allowable payment, as there is no DV safety concern related to being houseless, even if the reason for being houseless is due to the DV situation. The family coach then provides the survivor with community resources for temporary and permanent shelter. Reimbursements Example 1: Iman and her worker have discussed that she will be moving into her new apartment in two weeks. The worker has approved the move in and is now waiting to confirm with the landlord the actual move in date to verify the prorated rent amount. The weekend comes and goes and the following Monday, Iman contacts her worker saying an emergency occurred over the weekend and she had to move to the apartment immediately. Iman had to ask her friend to pay the move in costs and Iman was hoping ODHS would reimburse the money to her friend. In this situation the worker had already pre-approved the move in costs but not the total payment. After verifying the costs with the landlord, and verifying that Iman’s friend paid, the worker can approve the reimbursement to Iman’s friend. Chapter 5, section 10: Program integrity Fraud Example 1: The survivor lied about the name of the abuser. The abuser could be the father of the children and the survivor does not want to label the children’s parent as an abuser. The survivor might believe if we have this information, we have to report the name. If the name is reported and the abuser is contacted, there could be severe consequences for the survivor. We have information from the DA that the survivor and the abuser are texting each other. Therefore, we think they are back together. Consider, that the survivor may be pretending to placate the abuser until they are able to be safe. The most dangerous time in a domestic violence situation is when the survivor leaves the relationship. No fraud referral is made.