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Food Assistance: Reducing Food Stamp Benefit Overpayments and Trafficking

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Oct. 30, 1997
Report No. T-RCED-98-37
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Summary:

The Food Stamp Program, one of the nation's largest welfare programs, is the single largest program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In fiscal year 1997, the government provided $21 billion worth of food stamps to about 24 million recipients. Reviews by GAO, USDA's Office of Inspector General, and others have provided ample evidence that the system for delivering food stamps is vulnerable to, and is being victimized by, significant fraud, waste, and abuse. This testimony discusses fraud, waste, and abuse in the Food Stamp Program from three perspectives: (1) the nature and the extent of the problem; (2) the roles and the responsibilities of the major federal agencies that are seeking to minimize it; and (3) the potential of electronic benefits transfer, which would replace traditional food stamp coupons with a debit card, to reduce it.

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