Field Ops Memo 2006-06: No Increase in FS as a Result of Cash Program Sanction BEACON Automation on Riverside Rule

With the deployment of Increment 2.1.18 the Department will automate the FS Attributed Amount (“Riverside Rule”) function in BEACON. The Riverside Rule requires that the Department not increase Food Stamp benefits when an AU’s benefits under another federal or state means-tested program as defined in 106 CMR 360.030 have been decreased (reduced or suspended, but not when an AU’s cash benefits are terminated) due to fraud or a failure to comply with a requirement of the program that imposed the benefit decrease.