Watchdog Report Exposes Potential Fraud in Nutritional Assistance Programs

“State bureaucrats continue to abuse this federal rule as ‘error protection’ to cover up their sloppy work and avoid any accountability.”

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: A sign in a market window advertises the acceptance of food stamps on October 7, 2010 in New York City. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing an initiative that would prohibit New York City's 1.7 million food stamp recipients from using the stamps, a subsidy for poor residents, to buy soda or other sugary drinks. Bloomberg has stressed that obesity among the poor has reached critical levels. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A watchdog group outlined evidence that state officials are misusing food stamp exemptions to hide accounting errors.

A Feb. 9 report released exclusively to The Epoch Times by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), highlights key findings regarding the use of “no-good-cause exemptions” in circumventing work requirements and concealing food stamp errors.