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DOI official: Govts Must work together on ICWA

The chief general counsel for the Department of Interior says the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act depends on the federal government's ability to work with state governments and ensuring that tribal courts have enough resources.

By Associated Press , June 06, 2013

Tribe denies accusations on social service programs

In a lengthy statement published this week in the Devils Lake Journal, the Spirit Lake Tribe decried recent criticism of tribal social service programs involving child protection.

By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , August 10, 2012

Obama's welfare waiver: Gutting rules or tweaking?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Welfare is causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign. But the program is a shadow of its old self from the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of “welfare queens” to assail government poverty programs promoted by liberals.

August 08, 2012

New Welfare rules ban tattoos, booze

Taking aim at what they call an abuse of the taxpayers’ money, a growing number of states are blocking welfare recipients from spending their benefits on booze, cigarettes, lottery tickets, casino gambling, tattoos and strippers.

By By Shannon Young, Associated Press , July 19, 2012

Plans to drug test welfare recipients get momentum

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test to receive government assistance have momentum on their side.

By Ben Neary and Ivan Moreno, Associated Press , February 24, 2012

Fewer N.D. food stamp recipients last year

The number of North Dakotans using food stamps to buy groceries dropped 2 percent in the last month of fiscal 2011, while the state’s population swelled to an all-time high spurred by a hardy economy. Federal Agriculture Department figures show 60,011 people received food assistance in September last year, down from 61,229 in September 2010.

January 05, 2012

ND woman ordered to repay $32K in welfare benefits

A Northwood woman was ordered to repay almost $33,000 in public assistance to settle a felony theft charge.

December 30, 2011

Cass County Social Services has budget shortfall

Social services officials in North Dakota's most populous county are dealing with a shortfall of more than a million dollars next year due to the end of economic stimulus money and unexpected drops in federal funding for foster care.

October 27, 2011

Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Florida's controversial new law requiring that welfare applicants pass a drug test to receive benefits.

By Kelli Kennedy and Mike Schneider, Associated Press , October 24, 2011

Welfare fraud is tough to monitor

Tom Gravel looked at the piece of paper and saw his name, but the signature wasn’t his. The principal at West Fargo Community High School had just learned from Cass County Social Services that someone forged his name as part of an application for welfare assistance.

By By Mike Nowatzki, Forum Communications Co. , October 03, 2011

Fla. welfare applicants less likely to use drugs

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian suggests that it's the people who came up with the law who should be submitting specimens.

By Bill Kaczor, Associated Press , September 27, 2011

Letter to the editor: The American welfare state is going broke now

The welfare state is going broke. Democrats want to take more property from our achievers and borrow more money from communist China. Soon we will hear the lies that people will starve and the world will end if we don’t. What is really at stake is the money that Democrats need to buy votes for the next election.

By Brent McCarthy , July 06, 2011

Off the sofa! UK gets tough on welfare

Britain announced the most radical overhaul in decades Thursday to its once-generous welfare system, pledging harsh penalties for those who refuse jobs and community work service for the unemployed in return for benefit checks.

November 12, 2010

Letter to the editor: JSDC is corporate welfare taking taxpayers’ money

In the discussion surrounding the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. and the decision by the City Council to use half of the 1 percent sales tax for infrastructure, there are a few crucial points to be made.

By Brad Mills , March 26, 2010

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Willmar couple guilty of welfare fraud

A Willmar couple entered guilty pleas Wednesday to felony charges of wrongfully obtaining public assistance. Jose Angel Vallejo, 41, and Mariana Luna Vallejo, 39, entered the pleas in Kandiyohi County District Court. Under plea agreements, two additional felony charges against Jose and five additional charges against Mariana for violating the declaration requirements for public assistance will be dismissed. They will be sentenced May 5.

By By Gretchen Schlosser, Forum Communications Co. , March 05, 2010

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