Developers are building shelters over housing because the well-funded city Department of Social Services can pay handsomely ...

New York City has helped nearly 95,000 low-income households recover $47.7 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

A backlog at Jefferson County’s Department of Social Services has the sheriff’s office making several house calls to make sure children are safe.

More people will soon be eligible for New York's HEAP, which provides up to $900. Here are the details and how to apply in ...

In New York City, prosecutors dismissed an astounding 26,000 more misdemeanors last year than in 2019, pre-discovery law.

When Taylor Maki first met Jorge Melgoza at an organization that provides social services to Native Americans, she was ...

Many nonprofits rely on federal grants to provide addiction treatment and recovery programs, medical care in underserved ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams ... allocates hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending to help pay for social services. The spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1, which requires ...

A Buffalo man was given two years of probation for fraudulently obtaining more than $80,000 in social welfare benefits over a ...

A generation ago, New York Democrats and Republicans essentially ... and that investing endlessly in social services will rehabilitate all criminals. In Albany, these dominant “progressives ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Homelessness jumped 53% between 2023 and 2024 in New York, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Department of Social Services ...

Rodney C. Jones, 60, was sentenced to two years probation in State Supreme Court on Monday. He pleaded guilty in November to one count of Welfare Fraud in the Fifth Degree and one count of Attempted ...