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Civil rights group: Louisiana violating voting law

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren’t complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group...

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Lawsuit claims not all state offices offer voter registration

Two state departments say they haven’t seen details of a federal lawsuit, but are complying with the spirit and the letter of the 1993 law that requires voter registration at all state offices offering...

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Some oil spill payments going to child support

BATON ROUGE — Disaster payments from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are being intercepted by the state from those who are behind in their child support. Nearly $5.5 million has been seized so far. Lisa...

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Louisiana says no thanks to Race to the Top education funds

BATON ROUGE — The state has decided it will not apply for a multi-million dollar education grant from the Obama administration aimed at increasing access to quality early learning programs for...

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More Louisiana families turning to food stamps

LIVINGSTON, La. — College graduates. Two-parent households. Elderly residents with growing medical bills. The working poor. The face of Louisianians on food stamps has changed and broadened with the...

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Drug testing industry split on targeting welfare recipients 

Lawmakers are moving toward approving a law that would test 20 percent of the 4,000 residents who receive assistance from Louisiana’s Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program. A comparable...

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Judge: Agencies violated voter registration law

A federal judge has ruled that Louisiana public assistance agencies have violated a law that requires them to provide applicants with voter registration forms regardless of whether the transaction is...

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La. food stamp audit finds overpayment, possible fraud

An audit of Louisiana's food stamp program for low-income families says weak oversight has allowed for duplicate benefits, overpayments and more than $1 million paid to ineligible residents, some of...

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Juvenile detention facilities face new licensing

Louisiana's social services department says all juvenile detention facilities in the state are now licensed and inspected by its agency.

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Analysis: Pay raises uneven across La. government

State government employees are getting pay raises again — at least $33 million in salary increases have been awarded so far in 2013 — after years of stagnant wages for many workers because of...

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Vitter: Cut food stamp recipients who overspent

Louisiana's social services secretary said Wednesday that her office has asked federal officials for permission to suspend food stamp benefits for recipients who overspent their balance when the...

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State to cut food stamp benefits for overspending

Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration intends to strip food stamps from people who are believed to have deliberately spent more than their monthly benefits when the electronic food stamp service was down...

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State releases “Most Wanted” poster of deadbeat dads

Louisiana's social services department has put out a "Most Wanted" list of 18 parents who owe at least $20,000 each in child support.

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La. disqualifies food stamps for overspending

Louisiana's social services department says it stripped food stamps from six people who deliberately overspent their monthly benefits when the electronic service was down in October.

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La. bans use of welfare benefits on tattoos, nails

Louisiana's social services department is prohibiting the spending of welfare money at lingerie stores, tattoo shops, nail salons and jewelry stores.

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State employee charged with federal crime

Federal prosecutors have charged the director of auditing and compliance for the state's Department of Children and Family Services with fraud.

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Auditor questions state child protection services

An audit finds the state agency charged with protecting children in abuse and neglect situations has fewer workers, more cases and has failed to follow its own policies.

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Proposed welfare ban covers tattoos, lingerie

Louisiana welfare recipients would be prohibited in state law from spending the federal assistance at lingerie shops, tattoo parlors, nail salons and jewelry stores, under a bill that received the...

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Third state auditor pleads guilty in fraud case

A former managing auditor for the state Department of Children and Family Services told a federal judge that he used his state credit card to rent hotel suites in New Orleans and also was reimbursed...

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Audit: $1.3M in federal food benefits went to dead

A state audit has found that about $1.3 million in federal food card benefits were used after the legal benefit recipients had died.

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