Indiana’s food stamp program earns $1.65M bonus for improving, By Maureen Groppe, June 16, 2011, Indianapolis Star: “Indiana’s troubled food stamp program has improved enough to earn a $1.65 million bonus from the federal government. The state was second best in the nation in cutting the percentage of recipients who received too many or too few benefits, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday. ‘Indiana is certainly headed in the right direction,’ said Kevin Concannon, the department’s undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services. Indiana’s 7.13 percent payment error rate for 2009 fell to 2.6 percent in 2010. That put Indiana below the national error rate for the first time since 2004…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty