A bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000 in California for simple administrative errors is being pushed by a Democratic lawmaker. State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas introduced ...

Greenwich Township woman failed to include her husband’s six-figure income in an application for food stamps, state authorities say.

An Addison man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly collecting over $4,600 in public benefits ...

Senate Bill 560, authored by Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, would basically allow welfare fraud up to $25,000. Xavier Mascareñas Sacramento Bee file I was sitting in my basement office, minding my ...

A Farmington woman was arrested Tuesday following an investigation that uncovered thousands of dollars in improperly obtained ...

With the reform of Wisconsin's welfare system in the late 1990s, public assistance fraud was supposed to disappear. According to Racine County officials, that led the state to cut funding for ...

After an investigation by the Cortland County Sheriff’s Office and the Cortland County Department of Social Services, Delria M. Johnson, 29, of Preble, was arrested for two counts of felony false ...

A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested on felony charges alleging she fraudulently obtained more than $2,000 in benefits from ...