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RCED-85-109 1 (1985-04-17)

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R 'KEPORT BY THE U, S.



General Accounting Office


Overview And Perspectives On The

Food Stamp Program


The Department of Agriculture's Food Stamp Program
cost the federal government almost $12 billion in
fiscal year 1984 and served an average of about 21
million persons a month. In recent years the Congress
and Agriculture have been searching for ways to
improve the program's integrity, curb spending, and
enhance efficiency. At the same time, the increased
number of persons that Bureau of the Census data
show to be failing into the poverty category has
created additional pressure to maintain and improve
food assistance benefits for the needy.

To assist in congressional deliberations on reauthoriz-
ing the Food Stamp Program as part of the 1985 farm
bill, GAO has highlighted five major program issues:
program accountability and integrity, program simpli-
fication, nutritional adequacy, interrelationship with
other food assistance programs, and program cover-
age and eligibility. For each issue, GAO's report dis-
cusses the principal concerns it sees, what has been
done regarding those concerns, and what more should
be considered or done.


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GAO/RCED-85-109
    APRIL 17. 1985


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