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Q. Recovery of Overpayments and Correction of Underpayments. (1) The Department will specify uniform statewide procedures for recovery of overpayments of assistance, including overpayments resulting from assistance paid pending hearing decisions. Over- payment means a financial assistance payment received by or for an assistance unit for the payment month which exceeds the amount for which that unit was eligible. (a) Any recovery of an overpayment to a current assistance unit, including a current assistance unit or recipient whose overpayment occurred during a prior period of eligibility, must be recovered through repayment (in part or in full) by the individual responsible for the overpay- ment or by recovering the overpayment through reducing the amount of any assistance payable to the assistance unit of which he or she is a member, or both. (b) If recovery is made from the grant, such recovery shall result in the assistance unit retaining, for any payment month, from the combined assistance, income, and liquid resources not less than 90 percent of the amount payable to a family of the same composition with no other income. If the Department chooses to recover at a rate less than the maximum, it must recover promptly. (c) The Department shall recover an overpayment from: (i) the assistance unit which was overpaid, or (ii) any assistance unit of which an adult member of the overpaid assistance unit has subsequently become a member, or (iii) any adult members of the overpaid assistance unit whether or not currently recipients. If the Department recovers from individuals who are no longer recipients, or from recipients who refuse to repay the overpayment from their income and resources, recovery shall be made by appropriate action under State law against the income or resources of those individuals, or (iv) any assistance unit of which an adult member accessed all or part of their monthly payment at a liquor store, a casino, gambling casino or gaming establishment, or an adult- oriented entertainment establishment. The amount of the overpayment shall equal the amount accessed at any of the locations listed in 114–1150(F). (d) If through recovery, the amount payable to the assistance unit is reduced to zero, members of the assistance unit are still considered recipients of FI. (e) In cases which have both an underpayment and an overpayment the Department must take one of the following three actions by the end of the quarter following the quarter in which the overpayment is first identified: (i) recover the overpayment, or (ii) initiate action to locate and/or recover the overpayment from a former recipient, or (iii) execute a monthly recovery agreement from a current recipient’s grant, income or resources. (2) Underpayments. The Department will specify uniform statewide policies for prompt correc- tion of any underpayments to current recipients and those who would be a current recipient if the error causing the underpayment had not occurred. Underpayment means a financial assistance payment received by or for an assistance unit for the payment month which is less than the amount for which the assistance unit was eligible, or failure by the State to issue a financial assistance payment for the payment month to an eligible assistance unit if such payment should have been issued. The number of months for which retroactive underpayment corrections shall not exceed twelve. Retroactive corrective payments shall not be considered as income, or as a resource in the month paid nor in the next following month. (3) In locating former recipients who have outstanding overpayments the Department should use appropriate data sources such as State Unemployment Insurance files, South Carolina Department of Revenue and Taxation information from tax returns, state automobile registration, IEVS, and other files relating to current or former recipients. (4) The Department must maintain information on the individual and total number and amount of overpayments identified and their disposition for current and former recipients.