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127184 1 (1985-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday, June 17, 1985 127184 Statement of Brian P. Crowley, Associate Director, Senior Level Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Nutrition of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on the General Accounting Office's Review of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We are here today at your invitation to discuss the results of our review of the Department of Agriculture's WIC Program, which provided supplemental foods and nutrition counseling to 3 million participants at a cost of $1.36 billion in fiscal year 1984. These participants comprised pregnant and postpartum women, infants (up to 1 year of aqe), and children (1 to 5 years of age) who met specified income criteria (not to exceed 185 percent of Office of Management and Budget proverty quidelines) and were judged by a competent professional authority to be at nutritional risk. According to some estimates based on 1980 census data and other information, these participants represented about one-third of the national WIC-eligible population. Balancing this eligibil- ity potential against efforts to stem federal spending, we sought Co3a aCA / Jf) tLI

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