<prompt> Human: Hi,Bit of a stupid situation from my less than intelligent mother. I have been living by myself since moving out in 2009 after graduating High school. I went to college and got a 6 month internship in the fall of 2012. Internship was paid and paid pretty well 18hr. Very recently I received a letter from the Oregon Department of Health Services saying there was an over payment of SNAP benefits to my family Case name is listed as my Mom, but letter is addressed to me. This is because during the period I was working on my internship my mother still had me on her SNAP file.It wasnt an honest mistake on her part, she fed me some lines about how she needed more money for the rest of my siblings another who was 18, but not working at the time. Obviously the government was going to figure out about this considering all they had to do was correlate tax returns and other information.The bill says I am liable for this 3600 as well as anyone else on the case in this case its me, my mother, my step father and my younger brother. My mom can pay back the 3600 herself, she has agreed to do this. I am mostly concerned about side effects from this over payment action that might affect me or my other family members in the future. Will this hurt my credit? Will it show up on background checks and other things?Was considering posting to rlegaladvice, but my concerns are more financial than anything at the moment.Any advice at all would be very appreciated.EDIT: I contacted the DHS and let them know that I have not lived with mom during this period of time and have a hearing appointment in place.Assistant: If your parents are still on SNAP, I dont believe that they can or will try to take money from them, they will simply garnish their SNAP benefit at 10 until the debt is repaid. If they or you are not receiving benefits, they may try to collect cash from you. You definitely need to contact this agency and make sure they understand that, not only did you not apply for these benefits, you did not receive any. They cannot legally take repayments from you for something you did not get. You may wish to try be as ambiguous as possible as to why things turned out this way and direct them to the head of household for the SNAP case for questions as to howwhy this happened. Your mother did this, not you. She can tell them why she screwed up.Human: Hi. Parents are not on SNAP anymore due to making too much. I contacted the DHS and let them know that I have not lived with mom during this period of time and have a hearing appointment in place.  <response>: If your parents make too much money to receive the benefits, then this should have been addressed long ago. Im sorry for what youre having to deal with. 