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State Lawmakers Want To Tighten Controls On Welfare Benefits

By Jim Phillips June 3, 2013

Calls to toughen oversight of Massachusetts' welfare system are growing at the Statehouse.
 
    A group of Beacon Hill lawmakers led by House and Senate Republicans are stepping up pressure on negotiators to include in the state budget restrictions designed to guarantee that welfare benefits are reserved for the state's neediest residents

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Koczera: Lawmakers To Probe Transitional Assistance Fraud

By Jim Phillips May 29, 2013

The wheels are already turning on Beacon Hill, after the State Auditor's office confirms fraud in the Department of Transitional Assistance. 

The audit show more than 1,100 people who were confirmed dead were still receiving welfare checks, and those checks were being cashed

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New Bedford Visitors Bureau Bookkeeper Embezzles $11K

By Taylor Cormier October 30, 2012

State Auditor Suzanne Bump has released the results of an audit performed on the Southeastern Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau based in New Bedford.

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