welfare

A judge in Flint has given the Michigan Department of Human Services until Aug. 10 to process 5,000 or more remaining applications for cash assistance…

Michigan Watch is working with the online magazine Bridge in a year-long collaboration, following families who were cut from welfare cash assistance by a…

Michigan's budget will have about $300 million more this year than state economists predicted in January.That money is the result of a combination of…

The Michigan League for Human Services is pressuring lawmakers in Michigan who voted last year cut tax credits for working poor families.The earned income…

State lawmakers are taking testimony on legislation to require some state welfare recipients to undergo drug testing.Michigan tried before to require drug…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan officials are sending letters to 13,000 low-income families who have lost cash assistance because they hit a five-year…

We have a correction to a story we recently aired regarding the declining number of people receiving cash assistance through a particular welfare program…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A judge says some Michigan welfare recipients protected from losing benefits under state law can't be cut off because they exceed…

The online magazine Bridge and Michigan Watch are collaborating on a year-long series of reports about the Michigan families who were removed from…

A new report from Michigan’s Auditor General shows problems with determining eligibility for some public assistance programs.In 2008, Auditor General…