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CED-77-54 1 (1977-04-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES9---/ 7- WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 APR t 1977 A-516 04IIIIIIIIIIIIIII1l (1liiiIIIl IIIIIII LM101744 The Honorable Herman E. Talmadge Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 5QE 1/ r' United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: As discussed with your office, we are presenting information on demonstration project-authority for testing alternative food stamp program identification requirements. The information may be useful to your Committee in considering current food stamp legislative recommendations. On June 17, 1976, we issued a report (see enclosure) to the Department of Agriculture about increased identification requirements for food stamp recipients. The report, developed in response to the concerns of the Chairman, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, House Committee on Appropriations, recommended that the Department (1) in- quire further into the possibility of obtaining data from project areas already using photo identification cards for food stamp recipients before funding additional tests of this procedure and (2) consider sponsoring tests of other procedures that may strengthen food stamp identification requirements, including but not limited to --perforating stamps with a recipient's identification card number, --signing and countersigning larger denomination stamps, or --using photo identification cards in conjunction with stamp perforation or countersignature. In a reply to our report, the Department said that its Office of the General Counsel believed new identification requirements, if mandatory in only certain localities for CED-77-54

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