Possible Food Stamp Fraud by Certain Migrant Farm Workers in Polk County, Minnesota

Gao ID: 103366 August 1, 1977

Certain migrant farm workers in Polk County, Minnesota, have allegedly been participating in the food stamp program at low (or no) purchase requirements because of an arrangement under which employer-farmers in the area were required to withhold wages until the end of the work season. Presumably, such deferred wages were not reported and/or considered in determining food stamp benefits for these workers. It has also been reported that a federally funded migrants' organization was advising the migrant workers to participate in the food stamp program in this manner.

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