A judge has ordered the owner of a Rochester convenience store to pay nearly $247,000 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a food assistance fraud case.

Skimming involves placing illegal devices on cash registers or point-of-sale terminals to capture card data and PINs used by ...

Ionut Bizga, Doina Maria Bacelan, and Juan Carlos Pagan Hernandez are charged with several counts of criminal activities ...

The owner of a local convenience store who was convicted of food stamp fraud was sentenced Monday to two years of supervised ...

Georgia rolled out a security lock feature for SNAP cards in December in an effort to curb benefit theft. Six months later, only 6% of households are using it.

Program Manager Chloe Pappa says while only five clients dealt with this last year, they’re now up to 30% of their clientele ...

House members said they are troubled by the Agriculture Department's plans to collect personal data from people who applied ...

A Mid-South mother has been scrambling for answers ever since she said her SNAP benefits were stolen last December.

The caller introduced himself as an agent from ‘Avantika Gas Service’ and claimed that there was a pending gas bill. The fraudster threatened to snap the gas connection if the bill was not cleared ...

A Mid-South mother has been scrambling for answers ever since she said her SNAP benefits were stolen last December.

For many New Yorkers, a declined credit card at the grocery store is a fleeting inconvenience. But for the people we serve on public assistance, a declined Electronic Benefits Transfer card can ...

Recent polling of GOP voters finds they are not supportive of overhauling Medicaid. In fact, a majority (82 percent) want lawmakers to protect or expand these programs. Same goes for SNAP. Republican ...