Legal Basis

Legal Basis 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”.