Need for greater efforts to recover costs of food stamps obtained through errors or fraud
1983
Abstract: The findings and recommendations derived from an assessment of the management and operation of the Food StampProgram (FSP) are presented for legislative leaders, policy makers, and nutrition program planners. This assessment concluded that about $2 billion in food stamp benefits were over-issued in fiscal 1980 and 1981, while about $0.5 billion was under-issued, due to state food stamp agency andrecipient errors, and fraud. This resultant net drain on FSP funds could have provided FSP benefits to about 1.7 million needy people for the 2-year period. The findings that States collected only about 1% of each over-issued dollar and that States have experienced limited fraud pursuit obstacles were functional in the development of recommendations. These include legislative changes and a number of administrative actions by the Department of Agriculture to decrease current, annual federal FSP losses totaling about $1 billion. (wz).
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Publisher U.S. General Accounting Office, | Washington, D.C. : U.S. General Accounting Office, [1983]
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