A new report urging an overhaul of New Jersey’s cash public assistance program was released this week – and incorporated into a bill approved the same day.
Scores of truly-in-need New Jersey residents receive welfare benefits on a regular basis, but there are many folks receiving too much assistance — or help they didn't deserve in the first place.
A Ventnor woman is under indictment, accused of racking up more than $34,000 in welfare benefits by submitting false data on her application to the Atlantic County Department of Family and Community Development.