The act is designed to recover the billions lost to fraud and error, costing £9.5bn in overpayments during 2024-2025, ...

An "evasive" newly-qualified doctor's been banned from treating patients after scrounging £10,000 of state handouts while ...

A proposal to increase the maximum penalties for benefit-related fraud offences has been put forward. The States of Guernsey said the changes aimed to ensure penalties for such offences were ...

Electronic theft is quietly draining billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as criminals exploit a simple but devastating card-skimming technique to siphon off ...

Undaunted or unaware of the state auditor’s previous uncovering of substantial fraud in public-assistance benefit programs, the fleecing of taxpayers’ money has continued apace. The latest evidence of ...

Rachel Reeves is set to extend a crackdown on benefit fraud, aiming to raise £1.2 billion to help balance the books in her ...

The communities minister is pushing for a crackdown on benefit fraud as the Treasury allows NI to keep some of the savings.

BOSTON (WWLP) – Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio found $4.8 million in public benefit fraud–just in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. In this time period, from April 1st to June 30 of ...

Federal agents have busted an alleged fraud in which SNAP benefits were traded for cash, clothes, appliances at a local store in Cleveland, Ohio. They recovered $100,000 in the process. “Exchanging ...

Benefit cheats and fraudsters could also lose their driver's licence under tough new laws which have now been approved ...

Federal prosecutors arrested four Southern California residents Friday in connection with the largest-ever COVID-19 benefits fraud scheme, including two who are additionally accused of shooting and ...