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B-201928 1 (1981-03-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjdd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-201928 March 5, 1981 The Honorable William C. Wampler . House of Representatives Dear Mr. Wampler: We refer to our recent Letter requesting this Office to investigate an incident of 4L,1eged intervention by t L4e.. w-Hirc Legal Assistance group into t-e implementation of # food stamp workfare pilot projectin Nashau, New Hampshire and to determine whether such action constituted an illegal expenditure of Federal funds. Under provisions of 7 U.S.C. 2026(b)(2), the City of Nashua filed an application dated September 15, 1980, with the Department of Agriculture to participate in a food stamp workfare demonstration project. The Mayor also introduced a resolution for consideration by the Board of Aldermen that would authorize the city to implement and expend funds for the project. The Aldermen referred the resolution to the Aldermanic Finance Committee for its review. While the resolution was under consideration, the New Hampshire Legal Assistance group, a Legal Services Corporation (LSC) grantee, wrote a letter to each member of the Committee noting potential problems with the workfare project and requesting that they defeat the resolution. The letter reads in part as follows: After studying the rules and regulations which govern such projects, we are convinced that the administrative burden and local costs associated with the operation of this ill-conceived and poorly designed 'Workfare experiment,' as well as the adverse impact it would have on Food Stamp participants, far outweigh any projected benefits to project sponsors. We believe there are several serious problems connected with the operation of a Workfare Demonstration Project by the City of Nashua. We would like to take this opportunity to alert you to these problems before you determine whether or not to implement the project. It is our hope that, after you have read and considered our comments, you will refuse to implement this project. _Statutory restrictions most applicable to the action of the New Hampshire Legal Assistance group are: (1) the restriction on the use of Federal funds to interfere with the implementation of the provisions

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