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A-51604 1 (1974-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaegl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A-51604 RELEASED MAY 3 1 '974 The Honorable George S. McGovern Chairman, Select Committee on ,r Nutrition and Human Needs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: In accordance with your letters of May 15 and July 17, 1973, and agreements with your office, we identified, in selected States and counties, the differences in administering and operating the food stain rograi%which may have contributed to the varying rates of program participation. We discussed these differences in detail with your office on February 20, 1974, and have summarized them in this letter. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Department of Agriculture, administers this program. Our review covered the predominantly rural counties of Chester- field and Kershaw in South Carolina and James City and Westmoreland in Virginia. We selected the States and counties on the basis of program participation statistics in the Select Committee's May 1973 print entitled Hunger-1973. In South Carolina, which had a relatively high participation rate, food stamp projects have been in operation since 1965. In Virginia, which had a relatively low participation rate, projects have been in operation since 1963. Virginia was one of 22 States which, through agreements with the Department of Agriculture, operated pilot food stamp projects to test the effectiveness of such an approach in providing better nutrition to needy people. James City County and Chesterfield County had relatively high participation rates; the other two counties had relatively low rates. James City County has been participating in the program since 1970, and the other three counties have been participating since 1968. We reviewed pertinent legislation and background information on the food stamp program. We interviewed FNS headquarters and field officials, State and local program officials, officials and employees of local community action agencies, program participants and former participants, and persons whose families were potentially eligible but had never participated in the program. I o?O0 Th qn to Te raenesed oinfside the Gen eral WASHINGTOND.C. 20548 444 e

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