Policy                                                                       Issuance Number: FSC 02-12

Food Stamp Certification Manual                     Issuance Date: 07/01/02

From: Joni Jones, Director                                    Expiration Date: Until Superseded

Subj:  Corrections and Clarifications

1. [FSC 1621.5.3]  -  The instructions for instituting secondary verification have been revised. An INS Form G-845S is to be used to request secondary verification. This form may be downloaded from the INS web site. A DHS Consent for Release of Information must accompany the form. All requests for secondary verification must directed to the Memphis INS office.
2. [FSC 4420] and [4630] – Money in Simplified Employee Pension Plans (SEPs) is no longer excluded as a resource. This item has been removed from the list of excluded pension plans and added as a countable IRA.
3. [FSC 5704.5]– The instructions for verifying child support paid through OCSE has been revised to provide instructions for using the DCO-OCSE Inquiry Interface. These instructions have been moved to an Appendix.
4. [FSC 6510]– Under item 10, the Medicaid reimbursement rate will no longer be used to calculate medical transportation costs. Instead, the current TEA reimbursement rate will be used to calculate transportation costs.
5. [FSC 11120]– References to the policy that provides the instructions for different types of subsequent reviews have been added to this section.
6. [FSC 11420]– Instructions have been added for requesting additional verification of reported changes via a Request for Contact (RFC).
7. [FSC 12400]– A statement has been added to clarify that the worker may not require the household to appear for an interview using a request for contact. Also, in the chart the instructions for handling situations where the household refused to cooperate have been corrected to specify that the case will be closed because the household refused to cooperate.
8. [FSC 12440]– Instructions have been added for sending a Request for Contact when the household has failed or refused to cooperate with a field investigator.
9. [FSC 15110]– The disqualification periods for violations that occurred during the period October 1983 to September 1996 have been corrected.
10. [FSC 15210]– Additional information has been added to clarify when a county office worker must prepare the DHS-199.
11. Appendix O – This Appendix provides instructions for verifying child support payments received through OCSE.

Inquiries to: Betty Helmbeck, Food Stamp Section, 501 682-8284
                    Sheila Smedley, EBT Unit, 501-682-8188