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FPCD-81-27 1 (1980-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbjm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FEDERAL PERSON COMPENSATION kESTIR!TED - got to he released outside the General II j 9 Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Congressional Relations. UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 07 L - J RELEASED WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 JNEL AND DIvISION DECEMBER 9,1980 B-201405 The honorable Sam Nunn Chairman, Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel Senate Committee on Armed Services I 1140ll i 9ll fIII I 114059 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: /Military Personnel Eligible for Food Stamps7 (FPCD-81-27) This report is in response to your request for information on military personnel eligible for and receiv- ing food stamps. As you know, there have been reports that from 100,000 to as many as 275,000 military families are eli- gible to receive food stamps. This implies that the Federal Government is paying its military members a poverty wage, which could adversely affect the services' ability to attract and retain personnel. Because of the continual use of this information and its potential impact on military compensation, we have evaluated the validity of the most widely quoted es- timates, prepared our own estimate, and examined whether mil- itary personnel would be eligible for other public assistance programs. Our review showed that, of 1.8 million enlisted military personnel, approximately 19,700 members were potentially eli- gible for food stamps at the beginning of fiscal year 1980. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimated 24,000. Our esti- mate, like DOD's, was based on a comparison of the cash ele- ments of regular military compensation to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food stamp eligibility criteria. Other estimates, however, were calculated using different methods. For example, one estimate which showed 275,000 members poten- tially eligible for food stamps was based solely on a military member's basic pay and did not consider other sources of mil- itary income, such as allowances for quarters and subsistence, (963154) J 3/ (ep

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