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CED-81-81 1 (1981-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 March 9, 1981 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIG DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B- 202394 IIIii1111li 114634 The Honorable Carl D. Perkins, Chairman Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: tAnalysis of A Department of Agriculture Report on Fraud and Abuse in Child Nutrition Program-7 (CED-81-81) On January 22, 1981, your committee asked that we analyze a recent joint report the Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General (OIG) and Food and Nutrition Service issued on fraud and abuse in child nutrition programs--specifically, the school lunch program. Because the Service disputed the validity of some of OIG's findings and dollar projections, your committee asked us to analyze the report and judge the merits of the vari- ous matters in contention to the extent we could. Our work was to include an assessment of OIG3's work methodologies and some verification of the numbers and cases in contention. As requested, our assessment deals only with the first part of the joint report, which summarizes the results of OIG's audit of the school alunch program and the Service's comments on those results. The second part of the report deals with earlier find- ings which had been reported by OIG, our office, and the Service, and on which administrative or legislative corrective actions have been taken. In making our assessment, we met at various times with OIG and Service officials to obtain clarification and understanding of the basis for the findings and comments. These officials included the Assistant Regional Inspector General in charge of the OIG audit and the Acting Director of the Service's Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, who prepared the Service comments. We reviewed Agriculture's joint report and analyzed OIG working papers dealing with the major aspects of OIG's review that the Service questioned or disputed. These working papers included 11 (023110)

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