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It’s been a year since they were arrested for allegedly stealing millions from the poor. Here’s what happened.
A timeline of Mississippi’s welfare embezzlement scandal.
MISSISSIPPI Welfare News
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Was welfare misspending a one-man scheme? Here’s how Human Service spent TANF since the former director left.
Welfare dollars have continued to flow to two Mississippi nonprofits accused of spending millions on services that didn’t help poor families.
In a pandemic-ravaged economy, state welfare agency isn’t offering more cash assistance to families in need
Director says state law, current agency standards didn’t allow agency to quickly re-prioritize programs to provide more assistance to needy families.
Q&A: New DHS director considers increase to welfare benefits, expanded eligibility to serve more Mississippians in need
The new director of Mississippi’s welfare agency says the state should look at increasing benefits and expanding eligibility for cash assistance.
‘We’ve got to help those people’: A Q&A with Nancy New from 2018, while she was allegedly stealing millions of welfare dollars
Mississippi Today sat down with Nancy New and other nonprofit employees in October of 2018. Here’s what they said about their welfare program that is now at the center of a criminal probe.
Nonprofit officials spent $400,000 in welfare dollars to lobby state government. Public education funding flowed their way.
As Nancy New spent hundreds of thousands of welfare dollars to lobby, her private school companies received nearly $1.3 million from the state’s public education budget.
Feds: Mississippi must replace all misspent or stolen welfare money with state funds
“We are eager to come to a final penalty resolution and ensure that the state replaces any misused federal TANF funds with its own state funds”, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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