Refusal to Cooperate with Quality Control 430-05-20-40-05

(Revised 11/01/04 ML2941)

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Household cooperation with Quality Control is a requirement of eligibility. If a food stamp case had been closed for refusal to cooperate and the household reapplies, the application must be denied. The household is not eligible until it cooperates with Quality Control.

 

If a household reapplies 95 days after the end of the annual quality control review period (January 3rd of each year), the household must not be denied for refusal to cooperate, but it must provide all mandatory verifications before it can again be certified. Quality Control will notify workers of the earliest date a household can be eligible.

 

Examples:

 

1. Quality Control randomly sampled a Food Stamp household for the review month of September 2004, FFY 2004.  Household refused to cooperate with Quality Control.  The county agency is informed by Quality Control to terminate the household's eligibility following the 10-day advance notice period.  The earliest the Food Stamp household can be eligible for Food Stamps without cooperation with Quality Control is January 3, 2005.
2. Quality Control randomly sampled a Food Stamp household for the review month of October 2004, FFY 2005.  Household refused to cooperate with Quality Control.  The county agency is informed by Quality Control to terminate the household's eligibility following the 10-day advance notice period.  The earliest date the Food Stamp household can be eligible for Food Stamps without cooperation with Quality Control is January 3, 2006.