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Program Letter 2000-3
President John McKay Board of Directors Douglas S. Eakeley Roseland, NJ Chairman John N. Erlenborn Issue, MD Vice Chairman Hulett H. Askew Atlanta, GA LaVeeda M. Battle Birmingham, AL John T. Broderick, Jr. Manchester, NH Edna Fairbanks-Williams Fairhaven, VT F. Wm. McCalpin St. Louis, MO Maria Luisa Mercado Galveston, TX Nancy H. Rogers Columbus, OH Thomas F. Smegal, Jr. San Francisco, CA Ernestine P. Watlington Harrisburg, PA |
Through comments and questions regarding Program Letter 2000-3 three errors have been brought to our attention. These errors and their corrections are set out below and will also be corrected in the CSR Handbook 1999 Edition Revised. 1) In the second paragraph of Section 5.2, the phrase "and other federally-funded programs" should have been deleted from the second and third lines of the first sentence (see last paragraph of Page 4 of Program Letter 2000-3), so as to be consistent with the wording of Section 4.3(b) of the Revised 1999 Handbook. Thus the corrected sentence should read:
2) In the first paragraph of Section 5.4, the parenthetical phrase is misplaced at the end of the first sentence when it should be place within that sentence after "categories of assets." Thus the sentence should read:
3) In Section IX under the "Miscellaneous" category, "94 Torts" was unintentionally omitted from the list of Problem Codes. It has already been restored to the CSR Handbook 1999 Edition Revised. ___________________________ 7. Many programs record more assets information than is required by Section 5.4. LSC strongly encourages this and recommends recording at least the following:Non-Liquid Assets: Personal Property Real Property Whatever is actually recorded, programs intake procedures must include instructions to ask sufficient questions of the applicant to determine the total amount of household assets with reasonable accuracy and the program must be able to provide reasonable evidence that staff practice follows these procedures. |
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