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

SNAP — formerly known as the food stamp program — is the country’s largest federal nutrition assistance program. It provides ...

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.

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

In the fraud case, the couple both received SNAP benefits. Christina Toves was a SNAP benefits recipient beginning in 2013 and terminating in or about 2015.

Americans rely on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as safeguards to survive life’s storms.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged six individuals, including one federal employee, in an alleged multi-million dollar food stamp fraud ...

The USDA is probing a $66 million SNAP fraud case—one of the largest ever—implicating a network of individuals, including a ...

With our national debt in excess of $36 trillion and rising, there can be little doubt that putting America’s fiscal house in ...

In a bombshell announcement, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has unraveled one of the largest food stamp fraud schemes in U.S. history, charging six individuals in connection with a ...

Despite high-profile cases, fraud within SNAP is relatively rare. The introduction of EBT cards in the late 1990s replaced paper coupons, making benefits more secure and harder to misuse.

Legal Services NYC filed the suit in June 2025, accusing the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) of negligence after at least $51 million in SNAP benefits were stolen ...