Tag: SNAP
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...
Minnesota’s SNAP error rate increased by 40%, new federal data shows
New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says 12.58% of all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments issued by the State of...
Angie Craig clashes with Trump administration over fraud in SNAP program
Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins got into a heated exchange last week at a congressional hearing that discussed fraud...
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...
Abdidwahid Mohamed, owner of ‘Minnesota Food Grocery,’ charged in $1.1 million...
The owner of a Minneapolis-based grocery story was charged last week in connection to a $1.1 million scheme to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
USDA disqualifies 1,562 retailers, prevents $835 million in fraudulent SNAP transactions
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service has disqualified 1,562 retailers associated with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and disabled 760...
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...