State auditor warns welfare fraud is 'incredibly easy' as Mississippi's high-profile trial exposes weaknesses costing ...

Two Republican state lawmakers have asked the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to not spend federal funds to expand ...

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 ...

States are now in the process of preparing to implement parts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which achieved some of the most significant pro-work reforms to America’s social welfare system in ...

In the wake of what appears to be billions of dollars worth of welfare fraud committed against 14 Minnesota Medicaid-funded ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has moved to suspend federal food assistance funding to 21 Democratic-led states following their ...

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 ...

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

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 ...