NEW YORK (AP) – One retired police officer who told the government he was too psychologically damaged to work ran a martial arts studio, prosecutors said. Another claimed his depression was so ...

MATAWAN, NJ — A Matawan man was convicted of defrauding the Social Security Administration, saying he could not work or bend down for years — while in reality he was taking international ski trips, ...

The Trump administration is making rooting out fraud in social safety net programs a top priority, but it is essential to ...

Sadly, financial exploitation is one of the fastest growing forms of abuse against seniors and adults with disabilities. These scams take two basic forms; either a trusted friend, family member or ...

NEW YORK (AP) – An orthopedist accused of taking cash payments and billing health insurance companies for fake diagnoses in a widespread disability scam involving suburban New York railroad workers ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — An elderly person or an "Average Joe" falling victim to a scam isn’t a new story. But a local mother says she never expected her son with intellectual and developmental disabilities ...

Scammers stole over $66 million last year from Indigenous Australians, people who identified as culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and people with disability, according to new data from the ...

A program to help people live independently was poorly designed, recipients and providers say. But they don’t like the ...

Scammers typically use technology to do the heavy lifting and avoid meeting in person. They use social media to create a fake persona or hack into other people’s profiles and con their friends and ...