Will Dorgan and Conrad Hold Up Business For This?
Government admits improper farm payments
If we can track erroneous payments, why not just make the process a little more stringent?
Dorgan and Conrad will shut down the Senate to get more money for farmers, will they shut down this waste of money?
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department on Wednesday acknowledged making improper payments to farmers worth more than $2.8 billion last year.
Officials explained that most of the payments involved missing or incomplete paperwork.
“We take this very seriously,” said Chuck Christopherson, the department’s chief financial officer. “We know this is something that we can address and that we can fix.”
Federal law requires agencies to track erroneous payments, such as checks sent to farmers who were not eligible for a particular program, or payments for the wrong amount of money.
The amount of improper payments in fiscal 2006 was about 11 percent of farm program payments, the department said. The fiscal year ended on Sept. 30.
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Separately, the department found $1.6 billion in improper payments made through the food stamp program. That amount was about 5.84 percent of all payments, Christopherson said, down from 5.88 percent a year before.
If we can track erroneous payments, why not just make the process a little more stringent?
Dorgan and Conrad will shut down the Senate to get more money for farmers, will they shut down this waste of money?
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