Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 340 - Department of Human Services
Chapter 65 - Public Assistance Procedures
Subchapter 5 - Procedures Relating to Case Changes
Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 340:65-5-3 - Benefit suspension and resolution

(1) SSA suspends the recipient's SSI until the SSI benefit is reinstated or closed;

(2) the recipient is incarcerated, for the duration of the incarceration period, per Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC) 317:35-6-45; or

(3) the Oklahoma Health Care Authority initiates an administrative sanction until the sanction is removed, per OAC 317:35-13-7; or

(4) Form 08TA018E, Continued Medical Benefit Reply Form, is not received timely for households who are eligible for a continued medical benefit (CMB) following a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefit closure due to earnings. When the worker does not reinstate CMB by the suspension month's advance notice deadline, per OKDHS Appendix B-2, Deadlines for Case Actions, CMB automatically closes effective the next month, per OAC 340:10-3-75.

(1) eligible, the worker reinstates the benefit effective the month the benefit was suspended;

(2) eligible for the month following the suspension month, the worker recertifies the benefit effective the next month; or

(3) ineligible for the benefit, the worker closes the benefit effective the next month.