The U.S. Department of Justice has charged six people — including a fraud investigator with the U.S. Department of ...

Food stamp fraud is on the rise causing even more hardship for some who need help the most. One victim reached out to WFLX ...

The USDA demanded Kansas data on all food stamp applicants since 2020. DCF refused. Now the federal government could trigger ...

A woman in Michigan said the state fired her for exposing a scheme that stole money from the state's SNAP program.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A report from the FBI and the Department of Agriculture indicates a $66 million scheme to defraud the food stamp program in New York City.

More than 59,000 homes have been impacted by food stamp fraud, which amounts to more than $30 million in lost benefits, according to recent statistics from the USDA. In 2023, Florida reported 356 ...

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 ...

USDA's unusual data request SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is a federal program. Each state administers the program and enrolls participants based on eligibility determined by Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department on Thursday came out with new steps to fight fraud in food stamps, a federal program that has taken center stage as Congress struggles to adopt a ...

According to court documents, Babbar, the owner of Taste of India, filed paperwork in 2016 with the USDA Food and Nutrition Service for his grocery store to become a SNAP retailer.

The fraud is almost always found among the 199,000 smaller stores that process 15 percent of the nation's total food stamp transactions, Concannon said.