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    "ocrText": "PPI Intern1 - feb29fsregs_access.doc\nPage 52\ncurrent rule as set out above.\nC\nChild support payments received. Current section 273.12(a)(1)(i) exempts\nhouseholds from having to report changes in their cash assistance benefits because\nthe welfare office has prior knowledge of those changes. Although USDA is not\nspecifically proposing any changes to this provision, comments should\nrecommend that it be expanded to cover child support payments received from the\nstate's child support enforcement (CSE) agency. Because of irregular payments\nby absent parents and processing delays at CSE agencies, child support income is\namong the most volatile types received by low-income families. Current rules\nrequire many recipient families to report and verify changes almost every month.\nThis should be unnecessary now that most child support payments to low-income\nfamilies are being made through states' CSE agencies, which are required by law\nto have effective computer systems. States should be required to obtain\ninformation about child support from their CSE systems; households should only\nbe required to report changes in child support received outside the CSE system.\nC\nPhysical or mental incapacities. Current section 273.2(f)(1)(xii) addresses the\nmethod of verifying that an individual is physically or mentally unfit if he or she\nclaims exemption from the Program's restrictions on college students' eligibility on\nthat basis. USDA proposes to remove this paragraph, allowing states to dispense\nwith verification of students' incapacity except where the household's statement is\nquestionable. 65 Fed. Reg. 10868. Comments should support this modest\nreduction of the verification burden imposed on households and food stamp\noffices.\nE.\nBurdensome Forms\nStates have broad discretion in how their food stamp application forms are designed.\nStates wishing to have short, simple, accessible forms typically include a few general questions\nand then follow-up in the application interview where the household's answers indicate that more\ninformation is needed. For example, a single question might ask the household if it owns any of a\nlong list of assets, such as boats, airplanes, snowmobiles, vacation homes, stocks, bonds, mutual\nfunds, etc. If the household answers \"yes,\" the eligibility worker obtains the details during the\ninterview. Tennessee has a joint TANF-food stamp-Medicaid application that is one page, front\nand back. At the other extreme, some states have application forms that exceed twenty pages.\nC\nReview of state forms. PRWORA eliminated the requirement that USDA\napprove all states' food stamp application forms in advance. Comments should\nurge, however, that the rules make clear that states must submit copies of all\napplication forms to USDA and that the Department has the authority to require\nchanges where an application form is so confusing, intrusive, or burdensome that\nit violates the \"timely, accurate, and fair service\" requirement of section\n11(e)(2)(B)(i) of the Act (7 U.S.C. § 2020(e)(2)(B)(i)).\n52"
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