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The Summer Food Service Program for Children. Hatch 23, 1977. 18
pp.
Testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor:
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education Subcommittee; by
Henry Eschwege, Director, Community and Economic Development
Div.
Issue Area: Food (1700).
Contact: Community and Economic Development Div.
Budget Function: Health: Prevention and Control of Health
Problems (553).
organization Concerned: Food and Nutrition Service.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Education and Labor!
Elementary, Secundary and Vocational Education Subcomsittec.
The problems which occurred in the 1976 Summer Food
Service Program for Children were similar to those noted in
prior years by the Departosnt of Agriculture's auditors and in
the GAO February 1975 report on the program. Typical reported
abuses incl'ided food waste, consumption of atals by adults,
offsite consumption of seals by children, indications of
kickbacks and bribes to sponsors from vendoxx supplying seals to
the program, improper bidding procedures which resulted in
contracts awarded at the maximum allowable rates, oerpayk,-nts
to sponsors based on improper claims for reimbursement, and
maintenance of incomplete and inaccurate data on the number of
seals delivered and the number of children fed. Generally, all
of the serious progra abuses involved private sponsors. About
75% of the sponsors operating the 1976 Summer Food Service
Program were private organizations. Legislative changes that
could help eliminate or minimize the extent of program abuses
and imjrove operations in future years should be considered.
These include: changes in the law with regard to sponsor
eligibility, establishing program eligibility, seal services,
reimnursable State administrative expenses, reimbursable sponsor
administrative costs, advance payments to .aponsors, publication
of program regulations, and limitation on program spcnsorship to
public agencies, schools, and residential camps for needy
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