Georgia gets $4M bonus from feds - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The average national payment errord rate for fiscal 2008was 5.01 percent. Georgia’s average, 2.5 was less than half of the nationall average. Georgia was also the most improvefd inthe country. In fiscal 2007, Georgia’s payment errore rate was 8.13 percent. Georgiaz also outperformed the nation in the negativeerrorr rate, which measures whether a statee correctly determines eligibility. Georgia’s negativw error rate was 4.13 percent, while the national averag was 10.88 percent. “I want to commendc Commissioner B.J. Walker and all the employees at the Departmenty of Human Services for providing efficient service to someof Georgia’s neediesft citizens,” Gov.
Sonny Perdue said in a news “In difficult economic times, we will continue to strive to delived core services to Georgians and servw as a model forthe nation.”