The new department would conduct inspections, evaluations and investigations of state agencies and programs to identify fraud ...

Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead will be leaving the massive agency after more than five years in the job. Her departure, which Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday ...

Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan appointed Shireen Gandhi as temporary commissioner of the Minnesota ...

Minnesota DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead steps down; Governor Walz praises her work, including contributing to the DHS split ...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today co-led a coalition of 22 state attorneys general today in suing the Trump ...

The Legislature passed a law in 2023 that provides $14.6 million in 2024 and $3 million each year after for DHS to create ...

The Minnesota Department of Human Services recently suspended the at-home daycare license held by a member of the South St.

Photo by Andrew VonBank/House Information Services. Jodi Harpstead, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, announced her resignation Monday. She will leave the department Feb. 3.

The head of Minnesota’s largest state agency is stepping down. Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead announced Monday that she’s leaving her role on Feb. 3. Harpstead was ...

Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead addresses the House Health and Human Services Finance Division on Dec. 2, 2019. Photo by Andrew VonBank/House Information Services. Jodi Harpstead, ...

Minnesota Department of Human Services Commisioner Jodi Harpstead speaks to a legislative task force in 2023 at the Minnesota Senate Building in St. Paul. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...