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NSIAD-85-56 1 (1985-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabeyj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE US, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The, Secretary Department Of State Stricter Enforcement Of Refugees' Transportation Loan Repayments Needed Since the mid-1970s, the United States has resettled and assisted hundreds of thousands of refugeesfrom around theworld. The Department of State is primarily responsible for managing and funding refugee assistance programs. One such program calls for State, through the Inter- governmental Committee for Migration and var- ious domestic voluntary agencies, to issue loans to U.S.-bound refugees to cover their transporta- tion costs. This program, although founded on the premise that refugees will repay their loans and make the program mostly self-sustaining, is costing the United States over $30 million each year. Most refugees do not repaythese loans. From the program's inception through December 1984, only about 20 percent of the more than $227 million loaned to refugees had been repaid. These low repayment rates have resulted primar- ily from the lack of enforcement. In this report, GAO recommends actions to ensure that refu- gees transported to the United States are held accountable for, and comply with, the terms and conditions of their loans. 126389 I 0 GAO/NSIAD-85-56 MARCH 8, 1985

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