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Resource | Research and Data | Payment Accuracy and Program Integrity Results of the Feasibility Study of Estimating the Risk of Meal Claiming Error in the CACFP

FNS proposed to select a random sample of sponsoring organizations and, from each, use a random selection of the sponsor’s monitoring visits of family day care homes. Using these data, FNS would compare the number of meals claimed with the number of children observed at the time of the visit.

05/01/2009
Resource | Research and Data The Effects of Simplified Reporting on Food Stamp Payment Accuracy

Using Food Stamp Quality Control data from fiscal year 2000, this analysis suggests that the simplified reporting policies adopted by states in 2004 could have lowered error rates by 1.2 to 1.5 percentage points.

10/12/2005
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