Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 18 - HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - Benefit Recovery
Chapter 2 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Overpayments
Rule 18-1-2.1 - Legal Basis

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 18-1-2.1

Current through September 24, 2024

A. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) overpayments are State-administered federal debts. A recipient overpayment is the amount owed as a result of benefits that were overpaid or benefits that were trafficked.

B. SNAP overpayments "are a Federal debt subject to this and other regulations governing Federal debts. The State Agency must establish and collect any claim by following these regulations".

C. The Mississippi Department of Human Services is required to "develop a plan for establishing and collecting claims that provides orderly claims processing and results in claims collections similar to recent national rates of collection".

7 CFR § 271.2, CFR § 273.18(a)(2)(3) - Claims against households

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