Tag: Food Stamps
Public affairs director calls out food stamp fraud in Minnesota: ‘It’s...
Money for families in need or Rolex watches and luxury cars? One expert is sounding the alarm on more "fraud by design" and how...
Millionaires, Lamborghinis, and your tax dollars: Minnesota’s SNAP problem
Mohamed Elshazli and Magda Elsagher told the state of Minnesota they had $200 to their name and one car.
Investigators later found 17 vehicles registered...
Minnesota, USDA differ on scope of SNAP waiver as lawmaker raises...
(The Center Square) – Minnesota is continuing to use a COVID-era waiver allowing SNAP applicants to provide verbal signatures by phone without an audio recording,...
Report calls for action on fraudsters using dead people’s identities, stolen...
(The Daily Signal) -- Fraudsters using stolen Social Security numbers and dead people’s identities have collected millions from Medicaid and food stamps, a watchdog...
Rob Undersander: I received food stamps as a millionaire—legally! Here’s what...
Minnesota’s fraud problem is newsy, but it isn’t new.
For the greater part of a decade, I have been one of the many Minnesotans sounding...
SNAP loophole exposed by Minnesota millionaire draws federal scrutiny
(The Daily Signal) -- For the first time in more than a year, participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has dipped below 40...
USDA secretary threatens funding cuts to Democrat-leaning states over SNAP noncompliance
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday warned that some Democratic-leaning states may see funding halted if they do not share their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
Minnesota’s SNAP surge explanation raises new questions, Rep. Altendorf says
State Rep. Pam Altendorf, R-Red Wing, is pushing back after Fox 9 reported that Minnesota’s recently publicized 174% jump in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
Minnesota lawmaker: ‘Time to investigate why SNAP issuances rose so dramatically’
As Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients brace for potential benefit interruptions during the ongoing federal government shutdown, Minnesota is drawing attention for something...
House Majority Whip Emmer says millions going hungry will be ‘tragic...
(Daily Caller News Foundation) — House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer says the mounting impacts of the 30-day Democrat shutdown could force Senate Minority...