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264 Chapter 23 Claims Against Households This chapter is to be used as guidance for the Economic Services staff in the detection and referral of recipient claims and to assist the certification role in working with the household and the Benefit Integrity Claims Specialist (BICS). It is the Economic Services staff’s responsibility to refer possible claims and BICS's responsibility to act on these referrals. Additional policy and procedures for establishing claims can be found in the SNAP/TANF Program Benefit Integrity Manual.

2 3 . 1 D E F I N I T I O N O F A R E C I P I E N T C L A I M A recipient claim is an amount owed to the Agency because of:

(A) SNAP benefits are overpaid (B) SNAP benefits are trafficked. Trafficking means: (1) The buying, selling, stealing, or otherwise effecting an exchange of SNAP benefits issued and accessed via Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, card numbers and personal identification numbers (PINs), or by manual voucher and signature, for cash or consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone; (2) The exchange of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or controlled substances, as defined in Section 802 of title 21, United States Code, for SNAP benefits; (3) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits that has a container requiring a return deposit with the intent of obtaining cash by discarding the product and returning the container for the deposit amount, intentionally discarding the product, and intentionally returning the container for the deposit amount; (4) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits with the intent of obtaining cash or consideration other than eligible food by reselling the product, and subsequently intentionally reselling the Chapter 23