A Bath resident is facing multiple felony charges following an investigation into welfare fraud in Steuben County. According to the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office, 24-year-old Terry C. Long III was ...

California lawmakers are considering a proposal that would decriminalize certain types of welfare fraud under $25,000.

An Elkton woman has accepted responsibility for defrauding the state of Michigan out of an estimated $3,500 in welfare benefits. Emily Ann Cole, 27, pleaded no contest to one count of welfare fraud — ...

A 28-year-old woman from Wolcott is facing charges after investigators say she failed to report income while receiving public assistance. Bianca L. Mumford was arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff’s ...

PIXLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- According to the Tulare County District Attorney's Office, nine people have been arrested for welfare fraud. The criminal investigators from the District Attorney's Bureau of ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Companies run by a former professional wrestler received “sham contracts” in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the ...

The state is seeing a huge uptick in welfare fraud amid stepped-up efforts to prevent people from gaming public assistance programs.

WARSAW — Donna F. Wilson had a very good reputation with her elderly clients. An independent home aide, she’d do cleaning, make sure they were fed, and perform similar housework. And after two clients ...

BOSTON — The state is seeing a huge uptick in welfare fraud amid stepped-up efforts to prevent people from gaming public assistance programs. That’s according to a new report from State Auditor Diana ...