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EBT card-skimming scheme defrauds Rhode Island SNAP recipients out of $500K

Food & Agriculture 03/06/2025

CRANSTON – Roughly 1,800 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit recipients throughout Rhode Island were defrauded out of a total of $500,000 after their EBT...

R.I. DHS supervisor, daughter facing federal charges in alleged SNAP fraud

Food & Agriculture 09/10/2024

PROVIDENCE – A R.I. Department of Human Services supervisor and her daughter are facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...

U.S. applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in two...

Economic Activity 04/04/2024

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose to their highest level in two months last week, but layoffs remain at historically low...

Biden on ending hunger in U.S.: ‘I know we can do...

Economic Activity 09/28/2022

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden said Wednesday his administration's goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade was...

A plan to squash food insecurity

Commentary 09/03/2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in October is set to permanently increase the value of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits by 25% above pre-pandemic...

Sugary drinks tax benefits R.I.’s vulnerable

Economic Activity 05/28/2021

Equitable access to healthy food is one of the most important values driving my work as the general manager of Urban Greens Food Co-op....

NEW ROLE: Womazetta Jones, left, who was nominated by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, right, as secretary of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services and began her new role in late July, said there’s an absolute necessity to better deliver services respectful of cultural and economic diversity.  / COURTESY DAVID LEVESQUE

Five questions with Womazetta Jones

5Q 10/04/2019

Womazetta Jones | Secretary, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services 1. You became Rhode Island’s chief of health and human services in late...

MORE THAN 11,000 households in Rhode Island will lose SNAP benefits under the Trump administration's proposed eligibility change.

Study: USDA rule change would cut more than 11,000 R.I. families...

Government 09/05/2019

PROVIDENCE – More than 11,000 Rhode Islanders would lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits if a Trump administration proposal to narrow eligibility requirements is...

THE R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES has been levied a $2 million payment to the USDA to reimburse SNAP program payment errors. The charge will be paid by Deloitte Consulting, according to state Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

Delloitte faces $2M payment of R.I. SNAP errors; USDA offers settlement,...

Government 08/23/2019

PROVIDENCE – Following a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payment error rate of 13.81% for federal fiscal 2018 and 11.24% in fiscal 2017, the U.S....