On April 13, 1999, SSA staff initiated a redetermination. At that time, the Agency
discovered that the individual was receiving more income than was previously reported
but did not find fraud or similar fault. Consequently, SSA staff reviewed the period
from March 1997 to March 1999, which was within 26 months. Under administrative finality,
May 1997 is the earliest month that can be revised. Since budget month income will
create an overpayment in this case, SSA should input the excess income, suppress automated
notices, and wait for the record to compute the overpayment. Then, SSA should use
the force due procedure (PS M02) to change the due amount on the SSR to the original
amount so that the overpayment is zero for the 2 months (March & April) which are
barred to correction. Once the record has been placed in PS M02, the record should
be terminated and a start date record should be established. (See SI 04070.030F., MSOM BUSSR 002.001 E, and SM 02101.250.)