"I checked the balance of the EBT card. Seven cents was on it ... As a result, legislation passed requiring the Illinois Department of Human Services to track that type of fraud within the ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - SNAP benefit fraud is happening throughout the state, leaving families without a way to pay for food. Christina Salinas, a Biloxi mother of three teenagers, relies on SNAP ...

President Donald Trump vowed Friday to stay the course on his sweeping tariffs plan, which on Thursday sent U.S. financial markets into their steepest one-day decline since 2020 and prompted ...

An Illinois man has been charged in connection with a human trafficking investigation ... welfare workers with the state's Department of Children and Family Services. Now, six years later, 51 ...

The bar was quiet enough this Friday afternoon to hear the news playing on the TV overhead: President Donald Trump’s massive cuts to government agencies were prompting a wave of lawsuits, including ...

Despite the vital nature of their work, front-line human service workers in Illinois are underpaid and undervalued.

The federal government is pulling back $125 million in funding from the Illinois Department ... on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

State officials learned this week of $28 million in previously approved grants that have been slashed from the Illinois Department of Human Services, while $125 million has been pulled back from ...

The Senate has passed a bill that would give specialized training on human trafficking and establish coordination across ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is now under scrutiny for its lack of proper reporting on child abuse and neglect cases, according to a report from the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Job cuts and closures are coming for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ... to keep our state healthy and safe," Illinois Department of Public Health Director ...