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Committee adopts amendment limiting DSHS waiver of overpayment recovery to unintentional cases
Summary
Substitute House Bill 1243 was reported out of committee with a due-pass recommendation after the committee adopted Amendment HARO 680 to limit waiver authority to unintentional overpayments for ABD recipients; vote was 11-0.
The Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning Committee on Tuesday adopted Amendment HARO 680 and reported substitute House Bill 1243 out of committee with a due-pass recommendation by an 11-0 vote.
Representative Birnbaum moved Amendment HARO 680 and told the committee, "HARO 680 is a simple amendment that clarifies that the intent of the bill is only to waive overpayments, which are unintentional." The amendment was adopted by voice vote and then incorporated into the substitute bill.
Representative Birnbaum described the underlying bill as allowing the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to waive persistent overpayments of benefits to aged, blind, or disabled (ABD) recipients and overpayments made to functionally disabled adults receiving long-term care or developmental disability services. She said the measure would allow the department to waive collection of "relatively small sums" when the cost of collection exceeds the value of the overpayment and argued it provides "psychological and financial relief to ABD program recipients while potentially saving the state a small amount of money."
The clerk recorded an 11-0 roll call after committee discussion. By that vote, substitute House Bill 1243, as amended by HARO 680, was reported out with a due-pass recommendation.
