United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-07-08 monographic deposited born digital 35 p. GA 1.13:RCED-99-180 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180 P0b002ee180397c26 f:rc99180 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180 RCED-99-180 Fraud Federal/state relations Program abuses Food relief programs State-administered programs Internal controls Overpayments Data bases Data integrity Food Stamp Program HHS Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program FNS Disqualified Recipient Subsystem FNS Voice Response System FNS Online Query Subsystem California Illinois Louisiana Texas Letter Report RCED Congress has expressed a strong desire in recent years to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the Food Stamp Program. Earlier GAO reports found that millions of dollars in food stamp overpayments in four states were caused by counting thousands of inmates and deceased individuals as household members and thousands of individuals as members of recipient households in more than one state during the same period. (See GAO/RCED-97-54, Mar. 1997, GAO/RCED-98-53, Feb. 1998, and GAO/RCED-98-228, Aug. 1998.) This report discusses individuals who were disqualified from the program for intentionally violating the program's rules but were included as household members during their disqualification period. GAO found that more than 3,000 disqualified individuals in the four states it reviewed were improperly counted as members in households that received food stamp benefits during 1997. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180.pdf GAO/RCED-99-180 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-99-180 Letter Report GAO/RCED-99-180; Food Stamp Program: Households Collect Benefits for; Fraud Federal/state relations Program abuses Food relief programs State-administered programs Internal controls Overpayments Data bases Data integrity Food Stamp Program HHS Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program FNS Disqualified Recipient Subsystem FNS Voice Response System FNS Online Query Subsystem California Illinois Louisiana Texas Public Law 105-379