Filed as: Fair Hearings
South Dakota's Department of Social Services is updating its fair hearing rules to allow people to request hearings and withdraw appeals orally for medical assistance cases, while written requests remain required for most other programs. The changes also modernize the language throughout the rules, add new deadlines for appeals involving child care, the central registry, and lottery setoffs, and clarify that people in suspected program violation hearings can request copies of the department's evidence before the hearing. Additionally, the department updated references to reflect current program names, such as replacing "food stamp program" with "supplemental nutrition assistance program," and removed outdated manual citations.
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The effect of the rules will be to allow oral hearing requests and withdrawals related to the medical assistance program, update the evidence requirements for suspected program violation (SPV) hearings, update program terminology, update form and style, and remove outdated references.
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