Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government has new powers to investigate benefit fraud, identify benefit overpayments and recover debts. The government is ...

Nearly 200 benefit claimants will be refunded up to £5,000 each by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), it has ...

You get a text message that says your Social Security cost-of-living increase is ready, but you need to confirm your Medicare number to activate it. The message uses your name. It has a government ...

Multibillion-dollar government benefit fraud cases in Minnesota are making headlines for being so pervasive and brazen. But the Minnesota fraud machine is not an isolated concern. Benefit fraud is a ...

Federal prosecutors have charged four Massachusetts residents in a multistate fraud scheme, accusing them of using more than 100 stolen identities to obtain more than $1 million in Supplemental ...

The owner of a seemingly overachieving food truck in Santa Ana has been charged with SNAP benefits fraud after federal ...

Labour has been accused of “decriminalising” benefit fraud after prosecutions collapsed in the wake of Covid. While prosecutions have plummeted, benefit cheats are increasingly being allowed to cut ...

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 ...

Massachusetts state Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office has uncovered another $4.4 million in public benefits fraud, including $2.4 million in SNAP fraud, $1.7 million in MassHealth and Medicaid fraud and ...