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The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were proper, according to a government report.
In a selection of 181 cases from 1999 to 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that officials approved payments without any review 40 percent of the time.
The report cited a 1,900-acre soybean and corn farm in Illinois that collected $400,000 on behalf of an owner who died in 1995. The company certified each year that the dead shareholder was “actively engaged” in managing the farm.
The report was prepared at the request of Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).
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Daniel Messick
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
BUT, my question is, what then is being done to eradicate the waste?
When the GAO uncovers waste such as the story above, or the Pentagon paying $3,000.00 for toilet seats, are processes then put in place to prevent future ridiculous spending occurrences from happening?
Again, I think its great that the GAO is uncovering ridiculous government spending, I just want to know that the spending/budgeting is then CORRECTED thanks to the work of the GAO.
I guess what I’m asking is, Does the GAO then follow-up with the government office/department that has “outed” for the ridiculous spending/allotments, to ensure that the “outed” office’s spending has been corrected?