reimbursement for erroneous state supplementary payment

reimbursement for erroneous state supplementary payment Sec. 405. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized and directed to pay to each State an amount equal to the amount expended by such State for erroneous supplementary payments to aged, blind, or disabled individuals whenever, and to the extent to which, the Secretary through an audit by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which has been reviewed and concurred in by the Inspector General of such department determines that— (1) such amount was paid by such State as a supplementary payment during the calendar year 1974 pursuant to an agreement between the State and the Secretary required by section 212 of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the Renegotiation Act of 1951 for one year, and for other purposes”, approved July 9, 1973, or such amount was paid by such State as an optional State supplementation, as defined in section 1616 of the Social Security Act, during the calendar year 1974, (2) the erroneous payments were the result of good faith reliance by such State upon erroneous or incomplete information supplied by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, through the State data exchange, or good faith reliance upon incorrect supplemental security income benefit payments made by such department, and (3) recovery of the erroneous payments by such State would be impossible or unreasonable. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.