SNAP out of it: How our welfare system invites thieves to steal your money

The Justice Department has stepped up enforcement with multiple arrests and prosecutions targeting large-scale government benefit fraud across the country.

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts recently charged 15 people in a sweeping takedown of an identity fraud ring.

The alleged schemes used stolen identities to divert more than $1.4 million in food stamps, MassHealth, Social Security, […] ...