FOl'KTFKN The lleppner C.azette Times, lleppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 10, 1!IN0
Food packages under supplemental plan to be geared to women's, children's needs
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Food packages provided to
women and children in a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
supplemental food program
would be geared to their
different health and nutri
tional needs under rules
proposed recently.
"We want to tailor the food
packages to the nutritional
needs of children of different
ages as well as the special
needs of women who are
breastfeeding or pregnant."
said Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman.
Currently, the special sup
plemental food program for
women, infants and children
(WIC) provides only three
types of food packages one
for infants, one for women and
children, and one for children
with special dietary needs.
Food-Stamp
fraud calls
for repayment
People who get food stamps
fraudulently will have to pay
them back under a rule
proposed by the Department
of Agriculture.
Currently, people convicted
of fraud are dropped from the
food stamp program for three
to 27 months. The new
proposal would require them
to either repay the value of the
stamps in cash or agree to
have their food stamp allot
ment reduced until the
amount is recovered before
they can join the program
again.
The proposed rule would
implement legislation passed
by Congress in August (Public
Law 96-58). The final regula
tion is scheduled to go into
effect in May 19H0.
In addition to the repayment
provision, the rule will allow
states to keep 50 percent of all
money they recover from
fraud claims to help defray
their costs. Recovered funds
presently are returned to the
' federal government.
"We expect this change will
be a significant incentive to
states to prosecute fraud more
vigorously," said Carol Tuck
er Foreman, assistant secre
tary of agriculture.
The rule also requires food
stamp applicants to obtain
and furnish social security
numbers for all household
members. Foreman said this
will deter fraud by enabling
states to use social security
numbers to crosscheck food
stamp applications with other
wage and benefit records.
The Department put other
legislative reforms into effect
earlier this year to tighten
eligibility standards and re
duce abuse: income eligibility
limits were lowered to the
poverty level; the number of
deductions allowed from gross
income was cut from eight to
three; participation by stu
dents was limited; and house
holds are now dropped from
the program if the breadwin
ner voluntarily quits a job.
The legislation also increased
the federal reimbursement to
states for fraud investigation
from 50 percent to 75 percent
to their costs.
The m-w proposal also
requires states to promptly
reduce food stamp benefits to
people receiving annual cost-of-living
increases in social
security and supplemental
security income (SSI). This
requirement would save be
tween $30 and $30 million a
year beginning in fiscal 1981.
Each additional dollar in SSI
or social security benefits
reduces food stamp benefits
by 30 cents.
"In the past, it has often
taken states a number of
months to reduce food stamp
' benefits when SSI or social
security recipients' incomes
: ros because of cost-of-living
increases, tyow states will
have to make these adjust
ments immediately, or, if they
lack this computer capability,
within three months," Fore
man said.
Comments may be submit
ted to Alberta Frost, acting
deputy administrator. Family
Nutrition Programs, Food and
Nutrition Service, U.S. De
partment of Agriculture,
Washington, D C. 20250.
Under the proposal, the
program would privide seven
food packages geared to the
dietary needs of the different
participants.
In addition, the department
is proposing to limit the sugar
content of cereals available
through the program.
The seven food packages
outline in the proposal would
be geared to: infants from
birth to two to four months;
infants from two to four to six
months; infants from six to 12
months: children from one to
five years; children from one
to five years with special
dietary needs: pregnant and
breastfeeding women: and
women who have completed
breastfeeding. The food pack
age includes such items as
iron fortified infant formula
and cereal, eggs, milk, adult
cereal, cheese and juice. The
department is proposing to
restrict the sugar content of
cereals provided in food
packages to no mye than six
grams of sugar for each ounce
of dry cereal! This would
eliminate cereals in which
sugar constitutes more than 21
percent of the cereal by
weight.
The Surgeon General and
the American Society for
Clinical Nutrition have re
cently warned of the connec
tion between sugar consump
tion and tooth decay, Foreman
said. The Surgeon General's
report calls for curbing exces
sive sugar intake and states
that "American would be
probably healthier, as a
whole, if they consumed less
sugar.
In addition, under the pro
posal, WIC participants who
do not have iron deficiencies
could receive cereals provid
ing at least 25 percent of the
U.S. Recommended Daily
Allowance (USRDA) for iron.
Participants with iron defici
encies would be limited to
cereals providing at least 45
percent of the USRDA for
iron.
Currently, all participants
are restricted to cereals with
at least 45 percent of the
USRDA. This significantly
limits the number of available
cereals and surveys indicate
that a substantial number of
participants are not using the
cereals available from this
limited selection.
"The proposal on iron forti
fication is designed to tailor
iron requirements to nutri
tional needs while also insur
ing that more cereals are
actually consumed," said
Foreman.
To supply more protein to
pregnant and breastfeeding
breastfeeding, dried beans
and peas or peanut butter
would be added to their food
package under the current
proposal.
The department is also
requesting comments on whe
ther vegetables or whole
wheat breads should be distri
buted to participants in the
WIC program.
WIC provides food and
nutrition education to 1.6
million low-income women
and children up to five years
old with special nutritional
needs. Women participating in
the program are either preg
nant or breastfeeding or have
recently given birth.
The proposed changes in the
food packages were published
in the Federal Register Nov.
30. feopie mieresieu hi tum
menting may write to Stanley
Garnett, acting director, Sup
plemental Food Programs
Division, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
20250.
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