Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government has new powers to investigate benefit fraud, identify benefit overpayments and recover debts. The government is ...

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You get a text message that says your Social Security cost-of-living increase is ready, but you need to confirm your Medicare number to activate it. The message uses your name. It has a government ...

Federal prosecutors have charged four Massachusetts residents in a multistate fraud scheme, accusing them of using more than 100 stolen identities to obtain more than $1 million in Supplemental ...

More than 23,000 allegations of benefit fraud have been made to Scotland's social security agency in three years but only 42 ...

Labour has been accused of “decriminalising” benefit fraud after prosecutions collapsed in the wake of Covid. While prosecutions have plummeted, benefit cheats are increasingly being allowed to cut ...

State investigators uncovered more than $10.6 million in public benefit fraud in the second half of fiscal year 2026, according to a new report from Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office.

A Fitchburg man faces charges in connection with an alleged SNAP and pandemic benefits fraud scheme that raked in over $1 million by using the stolen identities of over 100 people. According to U.S.

An investigation by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Investigations has uncovered more than $10.6 million in public ...

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 ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Fifteen individuals, including 11 non-citizens and four U.S. citizens, have been charged and arrested in Massachusetts for benefit fraud. The alleged fraud totals more than $1.4 ...