Food Stamp Program Fraud Masked by Administrators, Report Says

An Illinois Link card, an electronic debit-like card used to draw on food stamp benefits in Skokie, Ill., on June 24, 2004. Tim Boyle/Getty Images

Food stamps overseers report a mere 1.5 percent fraud rate in the program, but that’s flawed and deceptive, according to a report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

GAI personnel interviewed about two dozen federal and state fraud investigators, and discovered that none of them believed the low figure.