The Pentagon Isn’t Tracking How Many Military Families Go Hungry
By Amy Bushatz, Military.com
on July 23, 2016
DoD officials have incomplete information on how many military families are using food assistance programs, a new report finds.
Defense Department officials have incomplete information on how many military families are using food assistance programs because the department doesn’t completely track the data or work with other departments to do so, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds.
While some data exist on how many service members use programs such as food stamps, known as SNAP, or the Women and Infant Children (WIC) program, which are both controlled by the Department of Agriculture, the Pentagon only loosely tracks the programs it administers, the report says. Additionally, no single office at the DoD is in charge of food assistance tracking, it says.
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