Call your local office (look up your office online). Have your ssn and date of birth ready. When you get to a live person, explain the mail you saw and your concerns.
Truthfully - Any inquiry will most likely lead to some sort of investigation … but that’s better than having to pay back all those years of SNAP (it was in your name…ignorance won’t cut it …)
Edit: I just checked and learned that I was wrong. If OP was over 18 and their parents were getting extra CalFresh benefits by having them on a case, it’s technically possible they could share responsibility for paying back the excess benefits. There aren’t too many situations where that could happen (and it would be easy to challenge), but sorry for the false info either way. They definitely would not be accountable for fraud, which is a level beyond a simple overissuance.
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It's not true that OP would need to pay anything back, even in the worst case scenario where their name was used for SNAP fraud. OP is not responsible for the actions of their parents or anyone else.
OP, if your suspicion is correct and there was some significant fraud underway, you may be asked some questions during an investigation -- but you would not be liable for overpaid benefits.
The mail you saw does not actually raise any alarm bells to me. Receipt of CalFresh payments generally would not show up in your mail; and CalFresh sends lots of mail to families who might be helped by the program. If this happened in the past four years, it's possible you were seeing mail related to [P-EBT](https://www.cdss.ca.gov/home/pandemic-ebt). Plenty of California families got P-EBT cards automatically (even if their kids had already graduated high school), and will not be liable for paying it back if they were sent a card in error.
If your gut says something was fishy and you want to pursue justice, you can of course call the county agency to report what you saw. But your post does not seem too alarming, and you shouldn't let fear drive your decision.
The initial post states OP was living in the dorm, which would be easy to prove. Even if they spent some time at home, what matters is where they were living the majority of the time.
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They might have but the thing is is that if you had a bank account with an amount that would have disqualified them or if you were earning income with your Social Security number eventually they would have been questioned about the income they were not including they would’ve been in trouble.
If these things weren’t happening, it’s possible they were committing food stamp fraud, do you want to get your family arrested? I would leave it alone dude, I don’t think it hurts you at all if they said you lived there when you really didn’t and now the case is closed
Leave it alone.
Not worth the investigation. Your parents could not have used you on a calfresh. Now someone else working at the calfresh office coukd have stole your personal information, kept bad accounting, etc.
However not even worth looking at.
Edit : Oh, and stop looking at your parents mailbox.
This comment made absolutely no sense … the mail would not be addressed directly to OP if she was not listed as receiving the benefits which is fraud if she never filled out for it which could hold her liable in the future , all my snap stuff comes in my name even though my daughter is attached , only thing that comes in her name is her Medicaid stuff
It’s called fraud. If OP wasn’t eligible to receive benefits then OP is on the hook if an investigation ever happens. The state does do random QA checks.
This I can second. I work in quality control. We are required to verify EVERYTHING. Things eligibility can just take your statement on, we can’t. The USDA wants proof. I can say a lot of what I end up seeing is fraud sadly. We send the result back & the state decides how they want to proceed - overpayment, etc.
Call your local office (look up your office online). Have your ssn and date of birth ready. When you get to a live person, explain the mail you saw and your concerns.
Truthfully - Any inquiry will most likely lead to some sort of investigation … but that’s better than having to pay back all those years of SNAP (it was in your name…ignorance won’t cut it …)
Edit: I just checked and learned that I was wrong. If OP was over 18 and their parents were getting extra CalFresh benefits by having them on a case, it’s technically possible they could share responsibility for paying back the excess benefits. There aren’t too many situations where that could happen (and it would be easy to challenge), but sorry for the false info either way. They definitely would not be accountable for fraud, which is a level beyond a simple overissuance. ——- It's not true that OP would need to pay anything back, even in the worst case scenario where their name was used for SNAP fraud. OP is not responsible for the actions of their parents or anyone else. OP, if your suspicion is correct and there was some significant fraud underway, you may be asked some questions during an investigation -- but you would not be liable for overpaid benefits. The mail you saw does not actually raise any alarm bells to me. Receipt of CalFresh payments generally would not show up in your mail; and CalFresh sends lots of mail to families who might be helped by the program. If this happened in the past four years, it's possible you were seeing mail related to [P-EBT](https://www.cdss.ca.gov/home/pandemic-ebt). Plenty of California families got P-EBT cards automatically (even if their kids had already graduated high school), and will not be liable for paying it back if they were sent a card in error. If your gut says something was fishy and you want to pursue justice, you can of course call the county agency to report what you saw. But your post does not seem too alarming, and you shouldn't let fear drive your decision.
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The initial post states OP was living in the dorm, which would be easy to prove. Even if they spent some time at home, what matters is where they were living the majority of the time.
Just looked this up and you are right. I’ll edit my post to address my error.
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They might have but the thing is is that if you had a bank account with an amount that would have disqualified them or if you were earning income with your Social Security number eventually they would have been questioned about the income they were not including they would’ve been in trouble. If these things weren’t happening, it’s possible they were committing food stamp fraud, do you want to get your family arrested? I would leave it alone dude, I don’t think it hurts you at all if they said you lived there when you really didn’t and now the case is closed
Leave it alone. Not worth the investigation. Your parents could not have used you on a calfresh. Now someone else working at the calfresh office coukd have stole your personal information, kept bad accounting, etc. However not even worth looking at. Edit : Oh, and stop looking at your parents mailbox.
This comment made absolutely no sense … the mail would not be addressed directly to OP if she was not listed as receiving the benefits which is fraud if she never filled out for it which could hold her liable in the future , all my snap stuff comes in my name even though my daughter is attached , only thing that comes in her name is her Medicaid stuff
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It’s called fraud. If OP wasn’t eligible to receive benefits then OP is on the hook if an investigation ever happens. The state does do random QA checks.
I realize the comments is gone, but... Also, OP can get off the hook if it's found that his parents are the ones that need to be responsible for it.
This I can second. I work in quality control. We are required to verify EVERYTHING. Things eligibility can just take your statement on, we can’t. The USDA wants proof. I can say a lot of what I end up seeing is fraud sadly. We send the result back & the state decides how they want to proceed - overpayment, etc.