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126718 1 (1985-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactlb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, April 17, 1985 State 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 House Committee on Agriculture on the General Accounting Office's Overview of the Food Stamp Program Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We are here today at your invitation to discuss our work on the Department of Agriculture's Food Stamp Program. The program served about 21 million persons in fiscal year 1984 at a federal cost of almost $12 billion. Because of concerns with the federal budget and the climbing federal debt, the Congress and Agriculture have been searching for ways to improve the program's integrity and administration, curb program spending, and enhance effi- ciency. However, the increased number of persons that Bureau of Census data show to be falling into the poverty category has created added pressure to devise strategies for maintaining and improving food assistance benefits for the needy. My presentation will deal with some of the matters discussed in our report entitled Overview and Perspectives on the Food Stamp Program. The purpose of the report is to assist congressional deliberations on the food stamp section of the 1985 farm bill. Based on our past and ongoing work, interviews with various individuals and organizations, and a review of reports and papers from various sources, the report highlights five major Food Stamp Proqram issues; namely, program accountability and integrity, proqram simplification, nutritional adequacy of the program, interrelationship of the proqram with other food assistance programs, and program coverage and eligibility requirements. The report discusses the implications of each issue and its related concerns, past efforts to address them, actions that remain to be

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