State auditor warns welfare fraud is "incredibly easy" as Mississippi's high-profile trial exposes weaknesses costing ...

Two Republican state lawmakers have asked the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to not spend federal funds to expand ...

The recent unveiling of new federal welfare rules on July 10 marks a significant shift in the landscape of public assistance in the United States. These changes, which reinterpret the 1996 Personal ...

The 'No Welfare for Non‑Citizens Act' is a bill introduced by Congressman Randy Fine to prohibit non-citizens from federal ...

SSI is a federal welfare program that really has nothing to do with Social Security, other than the fact that it is managed by the Social Security Administration. Juanmonino / Getty Images I can tell ...

Minnesota welfare fraud investigation expands beyond $1 billion scandal to expose systemic abuse of federal loan programs, ...

The Trump administration has moved to suspend federal food assistance funding to 21 Democratic-led states following their ...

Americans have heard plenty about how, effective November 1, the federal government shutdown suspended regular food stamp payments to 42 million individuals. Food stamps are important welfare benefits ...

In the wake of what appears to be billions of dollars worth of welfare fraud committed against 14 Minnesota Medicaid-funded ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. When he ran for president, Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, Clinton signed ...

I am so thrilled that President Trump has revamped our country's welfare and Medicaid programs. These programs are rife with fraud. Especially in Vermont, we have individuals flooding in from across ...