The future of a Cape Cod psychiatric hospital and a Canton children’s rehab hospital remains in financial limbo as ...

As of September, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance had issued about $9 million in federally funded replacement benefits to about 20,100 Bay State households who were victims ...

A former Massachusetts state senator has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for scheming to defraud the state Department of Unemployment Assistance and collecting income that he failed to report to ...

Anyone who experienced fraud on their EBT card after Dec. 20, 2024 will likely not be reimbursed unless the state sets money aside in its budget.

Individual homelessness levels are severely rising in Massachusetts, and service providers have received no growth in state assistance in two years, as eyes — and resources — have been trained on the ...

Paige Ward told Boston 25 News she had used her government benefits card at a couple of Walpole stores, one of which had a ...

Factors contributing to the rise in homelessness include lack of affordable housing, the end of COVID-era policies, and an ...

he filed a claim with the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance. But once he got a new card in January and his benefits were reimbursed, he noticed more fraudulent activity on his card.

The federal government has issued a flurry of directives targeting immigrants, including empowering Immigration and Customs ...

The state wasn’t living within its means as it bled money to cover migrant costs. But the thought of cutting back on aid and ...

The federally mandated point-in-time count, conducted during the early morning hours of Jan. 30, found 36 fewer homeless ...