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RCED-96-97R 1 (1996-03-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclcp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO3 United States (3 O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-271158 March 27, 1996 The Honorable Bill Emerson Chairman The Honorable Gary A. Condit Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives In September 1993, the Vice President's National Performance Review called for the rapid development of a nationwide system to deliver all government benefits, such as food stamps, Social Security payments, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children, electronically. In response, the federal Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Task Force was chartered in November 1993 to oversee implementation of a nationwide EBT system. Under an EBT system, each eligible beneficiary receives a plastic card that can be used to draw cash benefits from such devices as automatic teller machines and/or to access such noncash benefits as food stamps at grocery -store checkouts. While the preferred method of delivering cash benefits is through electronic direct deposit to recipients' bank accounts, an EBT system allows benefits to be delivered electronically to recipients who do not have bank accounts (called unbanked recipients). Four agencies participate in the Task Force: the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Consumer Service, the Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Social Security Administration. Each of these agencies has benefit programs that would be delivered at least in part through the EBT system that the Task Force is required to develop. The Office of Management and Budget also participates as overall coordinator. GAO/RCED-96-97R Electronic Benefits Transfer Task Force

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