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HRD-81-133 1 (1981-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 odtsle the General R ot to bereleased ot IP..itic apPlOval HUMAN RESOURCES ACC onfti ce o DIVISION by the office B-204525 SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 The Honorable Robert J. Dole I Chairman, Committee on Finance United States Senate 116414 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: States' Efforts to Detect Duplicate Public Assistance Payments (HRD-81-133) At the request of the former Chairman of the Finance Commit- tee, we obtained information on States' efforts to make intrastate comparisons of their public assistance rolls for detecting dupli- cate payments. We also made analyses of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program in four States to determine the extent to which duplicate enrollments and payments were occurring but not being detected by these States. The results of this work are detailed in enclosure I. We sent questionnaires to the 50 States plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and received responses from all of them. The information obtained indicates that about half the States have made efforts to compare their public assistance rolls on an intrastate basis for identifying duplicate payments. Twenty-five States plus the District of Columbia reported that they have, at least once, made such com- parisons. However, because the frequency, thoroughness, and amount of available information on the results of these efforts vary significantly from State to State, we are unable to draw an overall conclusion on the success of these efforts in identifying duplicate payments. Five States reported that they had made some sort of cost- benefit analysis of their matching efforts to compare public assistance rolls. Only Illinois, however, said it was cost bene- ficial to make intrastate comparisons of the public assistance rolls. Illinois reported that, for every $1 spent on making com- parisons, it identified $2.36 of erroneous payments. Kentucky, (105092)

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