General Assistance

PORTLAND, Maine - Portland officials say aid for immigrants in the city who don't qualify for General Assistance under new state rules will be entirely…

The city of Portland has reached a settlement in its lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services for withholding General Assistance…

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Gov. Paul LePage is getting behind a northern Maine town’s decision to consider new rules that would tie some welfare benefits to…

A program in Portland designed to help move general assistance recipients into work and off the welfare rolls is expanding its scope.The city launched the…

AUGUSTA, Maine — The latest attempt by the LePage administration to exclude certain immigrants from receiving benefits under local general assistance…

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Portland City Council has enacted new eligibility guidelines for asylum seekers to receive welfare benefits.A new law went into…

AUGUSTA, Maine — Municipal officials, struggling with uncertainty over the costs of providing General Assistance benefits to legal nonresidents, have…

AUGUSTA, Maine - Time is running out for a former Republican lawmaker from Lewiston to undertake his announced "people's veto" of a law that provides…

PORTLAND, Maine - New figures released by the city of Portland show that nearly 550 asylum seekers would be eligible for General Assistance under a new…

AUGUSTA, Maine - Whether Gov. Paul LePage intended to veto all 19 bills sitting on his desk or not, Democrats and others are now cheering their passage.…