EWG is not a particularly impartial source of commentary on modern agriculture and the USDA. However, they're worth following. They've a post comparing the fraud rates in food stamps and crop insurance:
The USDA Inspector General’s audit, released last year, estimated that the crop insurance program’s
error rate for improper payments was at least 5.23 percent in 2013 and
could be higher. The 2013 error rate was significantly higher than the 2012 error rate of 4.08 percent.
Earlier this month, USDA’s Risk Management Agency reported that the improper payment rate for crop insurance rose to 5.58 last year and was expected to stay above 5 percent through 2016...
By contrast, the error rate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or SNAP, the formal name of the food stamp program. fell to an
all-time low of 3.2 percent in 2013, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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