• What are Food Stamps?
• Calculating Benefits
• Special Rules

• Who is Eligible?
• Getting the Benefits
• Underpaid | Overpaid

• Applying
• Keeping the Benefits
• Fraud Claims

• Income | Resources
• Work Rules
• Notices | Hearings

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Fraud claims

• 86.  What counts as an “intentional program violation” (IPV)?
• 87.  What is a “disqualification consent agreement” or “waiver” of the IPV hearing?
• 88.  The IPV fraud hearing
• 89.  What happens if the person loses the fraud hearing or signs a hearing “waiver” or “disqualification consent agreement”?
• 90.  Being taken to court on a fraud claim

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