Mikhail Robin Wicker, 39, has been convicted of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $140,000 by ...

A man pretending to be a fake Marine has been convicted for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability ...

Mikhail Robin Wicker spent years claiming to be a Marine and Iraq War veteran, helping himself to extensive veterans care.

A Connecticut police officer collecting workers' compensation who said he was too injured to work has been arrested after ...

Federal prosecutors alleged that Daniel Rikkels, a 55-year-old Chula Vista resident, took a cut of the benefits that he coached and otherwise helped the veterans obtain, receiving “millions of dollars ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the numbers came from SNAP recipient data from 29 "red" states.

An ex-employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs faces 33 criminal counts for allegedly raking in huge sums for fake disability claims.

Like Iraq War vet Kinsley Kilpatrick, who showed up at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in a wheelchair, claiming to be ...

New York state Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution that netted her ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs now has an enormous amount of paperwork to correct after a staffer “blindly” approved thousands of disability claims without properly reviewing them for close to two ...

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Short-term disability is a type of government-run insurance or employer benefit that gives you income replacement for a temporary period when you are unable to work due to a covered illness, injury, ...