Three people were arrested and one charged after an alleged fraud scheme that used the stolen identities of more than 100 ...

One of the the four defendants in a federal SNAP fraud bust that totaled over $1 million and saw the identities of over 100 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a federal task force focused on preventing fraud in taxpayer-funded benefit programs. The order creates the Task Force to Eliminate ...

The new White House task force will withhold government funding for state and local benefits programs if their anti-fraud ...

More than 50 people in Northern Ireland have been convicted of benefit fraud since April last year [Getty Images] Complaints of benefit fraud in Northern Ireland have significantly increased in the ...

Unfazed by the state auditor’s previous uncovering of substantial fraud in public-assistance benefit programs, the fleecing of the state’s taxpayers has continued at a frustratingly furious pace. The ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Two years after a wave of public benefit thefts that left low-income Californians scrambling to pay rent and afford ...

A Gaithersburg man pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple federal charges, including SNAP benefits fraud, identity theft, and witness tampering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District ...

The government is ramping up efforts to drive down benefit fraud after the passing of a law that allows money owed to be taken directly from fraudsters' bank accounts. In December last year, the ...