The recent unveiling of new federal welfare rules on July 10 marks a significant shift in the landscape of public assistance in the United States. These changes, which reinterpret the 1996 Personal ...

Minnesota welfare fraud investigation expands beyond $1 billion scandal to expose systemic abuse of federal loan programs, ...

The 'No Welfare for Non‑Citizens Act' is a bill introduced by Congressman Randy Fine to prohibit non-citizens from federal ...

SSI is a federal welfare program that really has nothing to do with Social Security, other than the fact that it is managed by the Social Security Administration. Juanmonino / Getty Images I can tell ...

Americans have heard plenty about how, effective November 1, the federal government shutdown suspended regular food stamp payments to 42 million individuals. Food stamps are important welfare benefits ...

Chairman Allan attended the TTAC meeting in Washington, D.C., where the announcement of the finalized rules was made in ...

A sprawling welfare scheme that saw fraudsters steal over $9 billion in Minnesota is a damning indictment of a federal and ...

The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. We must make sure it never happens again.

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. When he ran for president, Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, Clinton signed ...

A woman makes a sign for the Children's Bureau in Washington DC in November 1923. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is tearing through the federal government agency by agency, slashing ...

Democrats have a fraud problem. A big one. And the past few weeks have shown just how much it costs Americans. In November, news broke that Democrats in Minnesota had allowed fraudsters — mostly in ...

Scammers have vacuumed billions out of Minnesota’s lavish human-services spending, and New York social programs are likely ...