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Hot Special at Small Stores: Food Stamp Fraud

Number 12199
Subject Welfare
Source Wall Street Journal (New York)
State NY
Year 1995
Publication Date June 1
Summary The Wall Street Journal reports that "small businesses play a surprising big role in food-stamp fraud... Retailers' trafficking in food stamps now costs the government as much as $1 billion a year, federal officials estimate. As food-stamp fraud grows, law-enforcement officers are trying new investigative techniques to thwart the small-store crooks."
Category General
Pages 2
Keywords Agriculture Department Internal Revenue Service IRS debit cards electronic food stamps groceries grocers
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