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 ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged six people — including a fraud investigator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) — for allegedly orchestrating “one of the largest food stamp scams ...

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

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

The total number of SNAP thefts nationwide since mid-2023 has reached almost 700,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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. Antonio Toves was a SNAP benefits ...

A USDA employee and five other individuals have been charged in connection with what authorities describe as one of the largest alleged food stamp frauds in the nation’s history. Investigators say the ...

A significant fraud case involving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been unveiled, implicating six ...

"With only two other states transitioning to chip-enabled EBT cards, this bill would make Pennsylvania one of the few states ...