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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT REDUCTION, SUSPENSION, OF SOCIAL SERVICES CANCELLATION OF SNAP BENEFITS
10/24 VOLUME V, PART XXI, PAGE 2
E. GENERAL OPERATING PROCEDURES
1. Notifying Eligible Households
A reduction, suspension or cancellation of benefits would be a mass change. Normal requirements applied to mass changes would be used:
a. Notification of recipients through news media.
b. Posters in certification offices.
c. General explanatory notices mailed to participating households.
The BPS may not use the Advance Notice of Proposed Action to notify households if there is a reduction, suspension or cancellation of benefits.
2. Restoration of Benefits
Households receiving restored benefits or who are to receive retroactive benefits at the time of the order for reduction, suspension or cancellation of benefits, will not have these benefits affected during the month(s) the action is in effect.
Households who receive reduced or cancelled benefits because of these procedures are not entitled to restoration of benefits at a future date unless USDA orders the restoration.
3. Record Keeping
There must be a record of benefits that households receive during a month(s) when a reduction is in effect and the amount households would have received had full monthly benefits been distributed. There must also be records kept showing the benefit amount households would have received if there is a cancellation of benefits.
4. Eligibility Determination
An order for a reduction, suspension or cancellation of benefits will not affect the determination of eligibility. The BPS must accept and process applications within normal time frames. If an applicant is determined eligible and a reduction is in effect, that household must receive benefits according to the revised issuance tables that reflect the reduction.
If an applicant is eligible and a cancellation is in effect, the household will not receive any benefits.
5. Expedited Services
a. Households eligible for expedited processing who apply during month(s) when a reduction or suspension is in effect must be processed as allowed by expedited procedures.
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