Food Stamp Program: Recipient Claims and Automated Data Processing (ADP) Funding Requirements

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This rulemaking implements provisions of the Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act. The Act amends the timeframe for household election of a repayment method for intentional Program violation (IPV) claims, changes retention rates on food stamp recipient claims for State agencies and reduces the enhanced funding rate for the costs of planning, designing, developing and installing ADP and information retrieval systems. This rule also implements a provision of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991, relating to household election of repayment method for inadvertent household error (IHE) claims. This rule also implements a change to ADP requirements which limits enhanced funding requests for automated systems to initial development of a ``complete'' system and corrects errors made in previously published regulations relating to recipient claims and enhanced ADP funding. In addition, this rule clarifies exceptions to requirements to provide notice of adverse action when an allotment is reduced to recoup a recipient claim and clarifies the Federal funding rate allowed for preparation of a Planning Advance Planning Document (PAPD). Finally, this