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$6,000 from the sale of his personal possessions when he sold the
Yellville house in 1985, $20,000 received from his grandmother in
1986, and $13,727 saved from his auction business from 1989-97.
G. Court-Ordered Restitution of Assistance Payments
After an investigation in 1999 concerning the Medicaid
payments made to Mrs. Sykes, the Missouri Department of Social
Services concluded that Mrs. Sykes had obtained Medicaid benefits
to which she was not entitled because petitioner owned a safe
deposit box containing a large amount of cash during the entire
time Mrs. Sykes received Medicaid benefits (1989 to 1998), and
Mrs. Sykes had indicated on her application for benefits that she
and her husband had no property in a safe deposit box. The
Missouri Department of Social Services issued an adverse action
notice on October 14, 1999, requiring her to repay Medicaid
benefits of $27,860.
On January 5, 2000, the Circuit Court of Ozark County,
Missouri, ordered petitioners to repay $60,965 plus attorney’s
fees and costs to the Missouri Department of Social Services,
Division of Family Services.3
On July 24, 2000, petitioners authorized respondent to pay
$60,965 to the Missouri Department of Social Services, Division
3 The record does not show whether the $60,965 petitioners
were ordered to repay to the Missouri Department of Social
Services included the $27,860 of Medicaid payments Mrs. Sykes was
ordered to repay.
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