Georgia Program For Women, Infants, Children: Management Crisis

"Huge Problems" Plague Georgia WIC Program Costs Taxpayers Millions by Rhonda Cook and Shannon McCaffrey.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  February 17, 2013.

According to a federal found that Georgia WIC had a poor record in keeping costs down at stores approved to accept WIC e.g. up to $7 a gallon for milk.  Another consultant found low participation, high food costs, poor management, and fraud.  Computer security and systems links have also been cited as problems.  Fraud rings of stores sometimes have statewide reach, with recent guilty pleas in Atlanta, Savannah, Decatur, and Barnesville.  Efforts are continuing to purge fraudulent vendors from the roles.