“The charges announced today are just a snapshot of the bigger picture, not just in Massachusetts but across the country.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government is cracking down on benefit fraud. (Danny Lawson, PA Images) The government is ramping up efforts to drive down ...

A San Francisco startup is pitching using AI to check people's eligibility for benefits and welfare for the government.

The United States has long organized its anti-poverty programs around one overriding assumption: that poor people are likely to cheat.

The government now has the power to access suspected benefit fraudsters’ bank accounts and strip them of their driving licences under a new law. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error, and Recovery) Act ...

The state Auditor’s Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) has uncovered nearly $12 million in public benefits fraud, including $4.1 million in SNAP fraud, just a month after a federal ...

Undaunted or unaware of the state auditor’s previous uncovering of substantial fraud in public-assistance benefit programs, the fleecing of taxpayers’ money has continued apace. The latest evidence of ...

Attorney General Andrea Campbell says she’s prepared to lodge yet another lawsuit against the federal government should the ...

Federal agents have busted an alleged fraud in which SNAP benefits were traded for cash, clothes, appliances at a local store in Cleveland, Ohio. They recovered $100,000 in the process. “Exchanging ...

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 ...

Four people have been arrested in raids following an alleged £3million benefits fraud involving hundreds of innocent victims having their identities hijacked and stolen. The suspected members of the ...