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B-164031 1 (1972-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaghx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMP TROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 8 20W LM096469 B-164031 & ' AUG 14 1972 Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of March 21, 1972, requested that the Gen- eral Accounting Office review 195 welfare ce s u =maries pro- vided to you by the Louisiana Welfare Department and arrive P.1 at conclusions concerning eligjxiliandocorctnss.f.pay- ments. You stated that the Committee staff had examined the case summaries and had found errors in a substantial number of them. The identities of the welfare recipients had been obliterated from the case summaries. At a meeting on March 30, 1972, with your representa- tives, we pointed out that we had issued a report to the 6%, Congress on March 16 on the effectiveness of the quality con- - trol system designed by the Department of Health, Education, t and Welfare (HEW) to control welfare eligibility and correct- 1 ness of payment.' In that report--which covered eight States, including Louisiana--we stressed that only through such an ongoing system could management expect to have continuous control over its welfare programs. We noted that Louisiana's quality control system was not operating effectively as of July 19,71 and that therefore the State did not have an ade- quate means for controlling eligibility and payments. HEW had required the States to have the system operating by Octo- ber 1970. Because of the importance of an effective quality control system and because of the desire to know how the system is now operating in Louisiana, we agreed with your representatives to do the necessary fieldwork to update our information on that State's system. Also, we agreed to review the 195 case sum- maries and to advise you of our opinions concerning eligibil- ity and correctness of payment. Our opinions were to be based only on the information provided in the case summaries. Field investigations were not made nor was additional information sought. Problems In Attaining Integrity In Welfare Programs (B-164031 (3)). -7~0 '/(twv

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