Advocates, medical providers and recipients of public assistance programs rallied Thursday at the Statehouse with a clear message: restricting access to these programs would hurt Kansans.

A general view of a "We Accept EBT Food Stamp Benefits" sign as seen at a store in Hawthorne, NJ on March 2, 2024. Christopher Sadowski 1996 was the “Year of Welfare Reform,” including for migrants.

Down Payment Resource (DPR) today released its Q1 2025 Homeownership Program Index (HPI) report, which saw the number of entities offering homebuyer assistance programs increase by 55 year-over-year.

Thousands of low-income people living with HIV could be losing drug coverage as states impose limitations on HIV assistance programs amid constrained budgets — raising alarms over consistent access ...

Investigators have found a large underworld of fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs. In one scandal, 57 people were convicted of stealing benefits from a children’s food program. In another scandal, ...

At the same time, the strategy of targeting welfare could help the GOP steer clear of proposing cuts to the popular old-age entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare. In other words, it’s an ...

More than $30 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare money intended to help America's poorest families has instead beeen used as a 'slush fund' - diverted into programs ranging from college scholarships ...

I am so thrilled that President Trump has revamped our country's welfare and Medicaid programs. These programs are rife with fraud. Especially in Vermont, we have individuals flooding in from across ...

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 ...