Combating Errors and Fraud: Issues and Strategies: Recipient Application Errors and Fraud: Difficulties in Collecting Amounts Overpaid to or Trafficked by Recipients.

The article discusses the challenges encountered by Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in recovering overpayments from poor and near-poor households of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It outlines the report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which shows the percentage of overpayments established and collected as shares of estimated dollars overissued in fiscal year 2005 to 2014.