Food Stamp Program: Error Rate Adjustments and Sanctions

摘要

The report reviews the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service procedures for adjusting a state's Food Stamp Program error rates to account for quality control reviews that states did not complete. Specifically it examines (1) the noncompletion adjustment's effect on error rates and sanctions (financial penalties) levied against states based on the adjusted error rates, (2) the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) legislative authority and its decision-making process for developing the adjustment for not completing quality control reviews, and (3) the most recent available data (fiscal years 1984 and 1985) on individual states' error rates and sanctions.