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 ...

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

"The agency says that it broadly wants to root out fraud ... over the USDA's data collection asked a federal judge to issue an emergency ruling to postpone the data collection period, but the judge ...

Twenty states and Washington, DC are suing USDA after the agency demanded states turn over sensitive data on applicants for ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has discovered a major food stamp fraud and bribery scheme, misappropriating millions of taxpayer dollars.

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

The USDA is tightening oversight for SNAP funding by requesting detailed personal information on recipients dating back to ...

Backed by a $415,025 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant, the state’s Fraud Finder Data Analytic Application has launched more than 1,000 investigations, uncovered $1.4 million in ...

The USDA has also vowed to crack down on SNAP benefit theft, announcing in April that it had taken part in "targeted benefit fraud" operations in California. In 2024, the USDA ended its policy of ...

35 House members said they are troubled by the Agriculture Department's plans to collect personal data from people who applied for federal food assistance, and urged the effort to "immediately cease." ...

NPR reported last month that the USDA was taking the unprecedented step of demanding states turn over sensitive data on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients – including their ...

35 House members said they are troubled by the Agriculture Department's plans to collect personal data from people who applied for federal food assistance, and urged the effort to "immediately cease." ...