State workers admit to falsifying food assistance data

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state’s food assistance program is facing a huge blow after some state workers admitted they falsified numbers that let to some of the poorest New Mexicans getting denied for food assistance.
According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the testimony came during another hearing in a decades old lawsuit filed against the state’s human services department. The state workers testified they sometimes entered false asset information on emergency requests f