Got a letter that I find very confusing.
This is half a question and half me being angry this is allowed. I got a letter the other day saying I was overpaid 12 dollars for cash assistance that I cancelled in December. They supposedly paid me in January and I wouldn’t know since I never used the cash after I submitted the cancellation. I was receiving 24 a month in cash and a lot more in food stamps but I moved so I stopped using the card and waited for my new application to go through.
The letter said that in order to get the 12 dollars back they’d take 10% of any other benefits I was receiving and in the same letter said the minimum was 5%. They took nearly 40 dollars from my food stamps this month. They even included some legal code that allowed them to do it. WHY AND HOW is that allowed. They took multiple times more from my current benefits when the whole 24 bucks were sitting in the card unused and I could’ve sworn they just take it back?
It seems extremely unfair that I’m paying so much for something that was literally their own mistake.
Edit to add: I moved from NYC to upstate.
Notice of Intent to Recoup a Cash Assistance Overpayment
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“AGENCY ERROR” amount of $12.00
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THE REGULATION WHICH ALLOWS US TO DO THIS IS 18 NYCRR 352.31(D)
YOUR GRANT WILL BE REDUCED BY 10% OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD NEEDS
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*if you are not receiving a grant, The reduction will start if you resume public assistance.
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and yes it included the random capitalization of -The
SNAP is public assistance and it appears my payment has gone down exactly accordingly. I’d be beyond disgruntled if I got a letter reminding me to re certify for next month and not a notice of my benefit amount changing.