---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 235.110"
title: "45"
number: "235.110"
heading: "Fraud."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/235.110"
---

# §235.110. Fraud.


State plan requirements: A State plan under title I, IV-A, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social Security Act must provide:

- (a) That the State agency will establish and maintain:
  - (1) Methods and criteria for identifying situations in which a question of fraud in the program may exist, and
  - (2) Procedures developed in cooperation with the State's legal authorities for referring to law enforcement officials situations in which there is valid reason to suspect that fraud has been practiced.
- (b) For methods of investigation of situations which there is a question of fraud, that do not infringe on the legal rights of persons involved and are consistent with the principles recognized as affording due process of law.
- (c) For the designation of official position(s) responsible for referral of situations involving suspected fraud to the proper authorities.

## Notes

### Amendments

[36 FR 3869, Feb. 27, 1971]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 603, 616, and 1302.

### Amendments

[36 FR 3869, Feb. 27, 1971]