OARC Collections Unit
The Office of Accounts Receivable and Collections (OARC) Collections Unit is responsible for determining the participant's liability for the value of any over issuance and the appropriate collection method.
Upon receipt of the Report of CA/NA Overpayment (FAA-0529A) form, the Collections Unit completes the following:
●Contacts the household by letter informing them of the overpayment and the necessity of repayment.
●Establishes a repayment schedule or negotiates for repayment with the household.
●Gives the household the option of repayment in cash or recoupment.
●Functions as the Central Unit for monitoring recoupment.
Additional responsibilities of the OARC Collections Unit include the following:
●Maintaining an accounting system to monitor all active overpayments.
●Recording the amounts collected from all overpayments.
●Maintaining correspondence with the household from whom collections are being made.
●Determining when an overpayment collection action should be suspended or terminated.
●Locating and contacting nonparticipants against whom collection action must be taken and for whom there is not a currently known location.
●Stop collection action, and remove overpayments from ARICS, when an appeal decision notice indicates the overpayment is remanded to the FAA office for correction.
●Determine the method used to collect the overpayment and the circumstances that result in suspension or termination of collection action.
●Identify those households that have failed to make installment payments on their overpayment.
●Send repayment agreement letters relating to all overpayments.
●Send collection notices.
●Record the value of funds collected from all overpayments, including the following:
The total value of offsetting
The total value of allotment reduction to collect overpayments
NA benefits returned to repay overpayments