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CED-82-59 1 (1982-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdak0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCCUNTING OFFICE 1172 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 March 15, 1982 COMMUNITY ANM ECNOMI@ R F rDr 0XVZLOPMENT DIVISION B-206711 .l The Honorable Jesse Helms Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: 117871 Subject: Expedited Service in the Food Stamp Program (CED-82-59) On January 22, 1982, you asked us to examine the use of expedited service in the Food Stamp program. The expedited service provision requires an expedited processing of new food stamp applications and the issuing of benefits in 3 working days. Generally, households with no net monthly income or households considered destitute, as defined by the Department of Agriculture, are eligible for expedited service. You asked us for information on (1) the extent to which expedited service is being used, (2) the extent to which this service is susceptible to abuse, (3) the impact that this serv- ice has on administrative case workloads, and (4) suggestions for improving or eliminating this program provision. As you requested, this report provides the preliminary results of our work. Because we have not completed our analysis, we have not reached any overall conclusions or made any recommendations. As you requested we plan to provide you with our final report by June 1982. Our preliminary work, which included visits to 4 States, telephone interviews with food stamp officials in 23 other States, and a review of records and interviews with officials at Department headquarters, showed the following. --The number of households applying for food stamps under expedited service varied greatly among 15 States for which we could obtain this information. In these States, 6 per- cent to 70 percent of all new cases received expedited processing--in seven of the States, more than 35 percent of new cases were expedited. -According to quality control data for 20 States, the error rate for expedited service cases was generally lower than

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