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A Milwaukee woman now admits she sold food stamps and will testify against another woman who appeared to have confessed to the crime with her during an episode of TV's "Judy Justice.". Java'la ...
Scripp News reporters sent surveys to SNAP agencies in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and found at least 106,000 cases of stolen food stamps across 46 states, adding up to more than $70 ...
Excerpt from a report on welfare fraud (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, August 2014) by the US Government Accountability Office. Welfare fraud is the act of illegally using state welfare systems by knowingly withholding or giving information to obtain more funds than would otherwise be allocated. This article deals with welfare fraud ...
Fraud and theft involving food stamps have become so rampant in recent months that some recipients want to hold government agencies legally responsible when benefits are stolen. Among the ...
Parts of this article (those related to 2021 rate increase, e.g. Biden administration prompts largest permanent increase in food stamps) need to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2021) United States Department of Agriculture Program overview Formed 1939 ; 85 years ago (1939) Jurisdiction Federal government of the United ...
Raquel Rutledge is an Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative reporter working at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Her investigations have uncovered government benefits fraud, public health, workplace safety issues, tax oversight failures, malfeasance in undercover federal law enforcement stings, life-threatening dangers of alcohol poisoning at resorts in Mexico, and a disproportionate ...
Food stamp fraud has been on a steep rise over the past year -- so much so that the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a warning last fall about skimming and phishing scams involving the food...
For most of its history, the Food Stamp Program used paper denominated stamps or coupons worth US$1 (brown), $5 (blue), and $10 (green). In the late 1990s, the food-stamp program was revamped, and stamps were phased out in favor of a specialized debit-card system known as electronic benefit transfer (EBT) provided by private contractors.