Review of Overpayment Collections for AFDC by the State of Wyoming Department of Family Services

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The objective of our review was to determine whether Wyoming's Department of Family Services (DFS) remitted the Federal share of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) overpayment collections to the Federal government after the program was repealed.  The DFS has systems in place to identify, collect, account for, and remit the Federal share of AFDC overpayments.  However, the Federal share of AFDC overpayment collections was deposited into a trust account and was not remitted quarterly after the program was repealed.  Three payments totaling $125,722 were made to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families between October 1999 and February 2000.  Those payments represented the Federal share of AFDC overpayments collected during the period January 1, 1997 through December 31, 1999.  At the time of our review, the DFS had not remitted payments for the Federal share of AFDC overpayment collections for the period January 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.  Records indicate that the Federal share of AFDC overpayment collections made during that time period totals $50,921.

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