Two months after the Legal Services Corp. admitted a few regional offices overstated their workloads, government auditors found that the five largest offices also reported 75,000 cases they couldn't document. Republican critics of Legal Services said the GAO report shows case-reporting problems are more serious than the agency initially suggested. Agency officials say that even with the new findings, the number of overstated cases is small compared with the total number of poor people who have been helped.
June 25, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON — Two months after the Legal Services Corp. admitted a few regional offices overstated their workloads, government auditors found that the five largest offices also reported 75,000 cases they couldn’t document.
The Baltimore and New York City offices of the federal program, which provides free legal help to low-income Americans, reported twice as many legal cases as they should have, according to a General Accounting Office draft report released to lawmakers Friday.
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