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103366 1 (1977-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxpo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ouxp COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION AUGO1 1977 l11 IlIIl lI I II llllIII11 I Mr. Lewis B. Straus LM103366 Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service Department of Agriculture Dear Mr. Straus: Residents of Crookston (Polk County), Minnesota, have informed representatives of our St. Paul office of a situation where certain migrant farm workers were said to be participating in the food stamp program at low (or no) purchase requirements because of an arrangement under which employer-farmers in the area were required to withhold wages until the end of the work season. Presumably, such deferred wages were not reported and/or considered in determining food stamp benefits for these workers. We also were told that a federally funded migrants' organization was pushing this arrangement and advising the migrant workers to participate in the food stamp program in this manner. We have learned that an apparently similar situation arose previously in Henry County, Ohio, and that, as a result, the Food and Nutrition Service recentl3 requested the Department of Agriculture's Office of Investigation to take action on possible food stamp fraud committed by migrant workers in that county. We recommend that arrangements be made to have the Office of Investigation inquiry into this matter include the potential fraud implications of the Polk County situation, including the questionable activity in this regard by the federally funded migrants' council. In addition, we recommend that Service regional officials in Chicago immediately contact State and local food stamp officials in Minnesota to alert them to this situation and to reemphasize that the nonreporting of deferred wages by food stamp recipients is a violation of program regulations when such wages are available or could be made available to the recipient upon request. We also recommend that all Service regional offices be instructed to (1) inform the States within their jurisdiction of a possible pattern of low (or no) 91K 2 1l57

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