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RCED-85-105 1 (1985-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabfiq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE US. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Secretary Of Agriculture Need To Foster Optimal Use Of Resources In The Special Supplemental Food Program For Women, Infants, And Children (WIC) The WIC Program for fiscal year 1984 provided supplemental food and nutrition counseling to 3 million women, infants, and children who met income criteria and were judged to be at nutritional risk. Because WIC has to operate within congressional funding levels-- $1.36 billion in fiscal year 1984--only about one-third of those eligible can be served. GAO found that improved program management is needed to derive maximum effectiveness and benefits from each federal dol- lar spent on WIC. Specifically, the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service needs to emphasize to state and local WIC agencies the need to target program benefits to those in the most vulnerable groups--generally considered by WIC profes- sionals to be pregnant and breastfeeding women and infants. GAO recommends that this be done by establishing targeting as a major program objective, monitoring state and local agency performance, and encouraging state and local agencies to use more outreach and publicity and develop closer tie-ins with medical sources that can refer the most vulnerable individuals to WIC. GAO also believes that optimal use of WIC resources can be fos- tered by imposing greater rigor and uniformity in establishing and using nutritional risk factors and related standards, strengthening income determination processes, and changing the way WIC funds are allocated to, and managed by, state and local agencies. \0ljED SED 2 00 z 2 - OGAO/RCED-8.-105 'Icco S-, SEPTEMBER 27, 1985

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