WASHINGTON — Veterans advocates and Democratic lawmakers slammed a recent newspaper report critical of the disability benefits system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs for “cherry-picking ...

Sep. 25—RALEIGH — A newly-formed investigative unit created to combat disability fraud will include two North Carolina state agencies along with two partner agencies from the federal government. The N ...

Veterans’ advocates, a top government watchdog and senators in both parties on Wednesday denounced a Washington Post investigation that revealed exaggeration and fraud in the government’s $193 billion ...

On Wednesday, a 28-year-old Minneapolis woman was charged in a $14 million autism fraud scheme and in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Gandhi said the DHS has taken "significant administrative ...

Lawrence Popp claimed he wasn't able to work, drive or read. — -- A Milwaukee businessman signed up for Social Security disability benefits because he claimed his blindness was so debilitating he ...

A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee from California has been indicted for allegedly helping veterans fraudulently obtain disability benefits. Daniel Rikkels, 55, of Chula Vista, was ...

A Haines City police captain is among 11 people indicted in a scheme to defraud Veterans Affairs (VA), according to reporting from FOX 13. Captain Gabriel Garcia, who has served with the department ...

Minnesota has long been a national leader in supporting individuals with disabilities through home and community-based services (HCBS). But today, that legacy is at risk. The very systems designed to ...

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has suspended payments to several providers under another taxpayer-funded program that is supposed to help people in need. Temporary DHS Commissioner Shireen ...

A former North Carolina postal carrier pleaded guilty in connection with workers’ compensation fraud, federal prosecutors said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A North Carolina woman collecting thousands in ...

A North Carolina woman collecting thousands in disability benefits was secretly working another job while claiming she had not worked in the years after she was injured as a postal carrier, federal ...