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121137 1 (1983-04-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacszr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 2:00 p.m. EST Wednesday, April 20, 1983 Statement of Brian P. Crowley, Associate Director, Senior Level Resources, Community and Economic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the 111111 11 House Committee on Agriculture 121137 on the General Accounting Office's Review of Efforts to Reduce Food Stamp Program Losses Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We are here today at your invitation to discuss our February 4, 1983, report (GAO/RCED-83-40) which addressed the need for greater efforts to recover costs of food stamps obtained through errors or fraud. We also will discuss some ongoing and planned work and some legislative matters that relate to Food Stamp Program losses. I will highlight the major issues. Much of our work is focused on how to prevent and recover Federal losses from overissued food stamp benefits. There also is legitimate concern that eligible program recipients receive all that they are entitled to. Agriculture's updated quality control results for fiscal year 1981, the latest data we could get, show that about $1.1 billion, or about 10 percent, of the $10.6 billion in food stamp benefits issued that year, should not have been issued. Conversely, States should have issued an additional $267 million, or about 2.5 percent, to households 1

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