What is Program Integrity?
Improving stewardship of Federal money by reducing recipient fraud, reducing retailer fraud, ensuring accurate eligibility determinations, and reducing improper payments.
What is Program Integrity?
Improving stewardship of Federal money by reducing recipient fraud, reducing retailer fraud, ensuring accurate eligibility determinations, and reducing improper payments.
Report Suspicious Nutrition Assistance Fraud (including Retailer Fraud) to the USDA Office of the Inspector General
Call:
(800) 424-9121
(202) 690-1622
(202) 690-1202 (TDD)
Write:
United States Department of Agriculture
Office of Inspector General
PO Box 23399
Washington, DC 20026-3399
Online:
Website - http://www.usda.gov/oig/hotline.htm
Electronic Mail - usda_hotline@oig.usda.gov
Promoting access to nutrition assistance programs – programs that have never been more urgently needed than they are today – goes hand-in-hand with managing them in a manner that ensures public confidence and maximizes the impact of the Federal investment. Americans expect and deserve a government that ensures wise management of the public investment in nutrition assistance is managed wisely. Without that, we risk undermining public confidence in their value. Furthermore, strong management ensures that those most in need of nutrition assistance receive it, and that scarce resources are not wasted by error or abuse.
FNS uses all available opportunities, including new communication and eGovernment technologies, to promote secure and efficient program delivery hand-in-hand with strong customer service.
SNAP is the Nations' largest nutrition assistance program and first line of defense against hunger and poor nutrition. It is essential that the program operate with accuracy and integrity so that only eligible people receive benefits. While SNAP is already achieving record level payment accuracy, the size of the program means that even small additional reductions can yield substantial savings. USDA leadership has worked closely with State agency leadership on the importance of improving payment accuracy.
In FY 2013, we will: