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Commodity Supplemental Food Program

The program provides a monthly food package to help meet the nutritional needs of low-income women, infants, children, and elderly in selected sites in 32 States, the District of Columbia, and on two Indian reservations. The State and tribal grantees operate the program directly or through local agencies.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program lacks adequate performance measures and goals. Due to the absence of measures and goals, the program cannot demonstrate whether it is helping meet the nutritional needs of program participants.
  • While the Department of Agriculture is taking steps to improve the nutritional content of the monthly food package for elderly participants, program oversight remains weak. Reviews of state and local programs occur too infrequently to manage the program and improve performance.
  • The program duplicates other nutrition programs which operate nation-wide and serve all eligible people who apply. Most program participants are also eligible to receive Food Stamp benefits. Furthermore, some participants are eligible for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, although they are not permitted to participate in both programs simultaneously.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with Congress to eliminate the program and enroll participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children and the Food Stamp Program.
  • Developing adequate performance measures and a plan for establishing baseline data and performance targets.
  • Developing and implementing a plan for more comprehensive and periodic review of program management.

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