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

Published: Aug 01, 1977. Publicly Released: Nov 17, 1982.
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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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