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The Food Stamp Program: Overissued Benefits Not Recovered and Fraud Not Punished

CED-77-112 Published: Jul 18, 1977. Publicly Released: Jul 18, 1977.
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The Government is losing over half a billion dollars annually because of overissued food stamp benefits caused by errors, misrepresentation, and suspected fraud by recipients and by errors of local food stamp offices.

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