Four Massachusetts residents are accused of using stolen identities in a SNAP and unemployment benefits fraud scheme worth over $1 million.

Federal officials are charging four MA residents of using stolen identities to obtain over $1 million in government benefits ...

Gov. Maura Healey and U.S. Attorney Leah Foley continue to accuse one another of being untruthful about whether Massachusetts ...

The United States Attorney’s Office said the case involves the alleged use of more than 100 stolen identities to obtain over ...

Feb. 3—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 ...

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 U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said the suspects stole the identities from victims across the country and used them to ...

Two years after a wave of public benefit thefts that left low-income Californians scrambling to pay rent and afford food each month, Gov. Gavin Newsom is touting a significant decline in the reported ...

Multibillion-dollar government benefit fraud cases in Minnesota are making headlines for being so pervasive and brazen. But the Minnesota fraud machine is not an isolated concern. Benefit fraud is a ...

The Trump administration has escalated its campaign against alleged benefits fraud, freezing social services funding for five Democratic-led states and announcing a new fraud-focused position in the ...