TAMPA, Fla. — A new statewide task force is aiming to crack down on fraud involving public assistance services, like Medicaid and EBT, across Florida.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the launch of a Public Assistance Fraud Protection Task Force on Wednesday morning in Tampa.
Uthmeier stressed a recent trend of billions of dollars being stolen from federal programs like Medicaid, SNAP, EBT and rental assistance, negatively affecting working families and people with disabilities who rely on them…