The Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) is an information exchange system designed by the Administration for Children and Families to provide State Public Assistance Agencies (SPAAs) with appropriate data as a result of a Federal computer matching initiative. The resulting matches are used by participating SPAAs to validate client reported circumstances and identify possible candidates for erroneous payments based on data provided. The three parts of PARIS are the Veterans Administration match, Department of Defense/Office of Personnel Management match (regarding active or retired military and Federal employees) and the Interstate match (duplicate payments made to the same client in more than one State). The participating Federal programs that utilize PARIS data are Medical Assistance, Medicaid, TANF and the Food Stamps program.