welfare benefits

A Michigan senate bill would let some state workers arrest people for retail trafficking of food stamps and other benefits.The bill would give a small…

Governor Rick Snyder has signed a new law tying welfare benefits to school attendance.For more than two years, a Michigan Department of Health and Human…

On Wednesday a state senate panel will review a bill that would cut off welfare benefits to families whose children skip school repeatedly.About 29,000…

The state House has approved a bill that would revoke welfare payments from people who fail drug tests. The state would implement the one-year pilot…

It’s Thursday. The day we talk Michigan politics with Ken Sikkema, former Senate Majority Leader and Senior Policy Fellow at Public Sector Consultants and…

Bill to decriminalize marijuana introduced in state LegislatureState Representative Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) has introduced a bill in the state…

Drug tests for welfare recipientsA bill which would require drug tests for welfare recipients has moved forward in the Michigan legislature."A state House…

The state kicked more than 500 people off food assistance and other welfare programs over the past 12 months because they won the Lottery.But, a member of…

Applicants for cash assistance in Michigan will have to go through a new 21-day assessment.The state Department of Human Services Wednesday said the…

Nine months after a Michigan welfare reform was implemented, the number of Michigan families receiving state checks plummeted to the lowest level in more…