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OIG Special Agents have special expertise in investigating white collar crime associated to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created on April eleven, 1953, when Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 grew to become efficient. HEW thus turned the first new Cabinet-level department because the Department of Labor was created in 1913. Open Government At Hhs HHS along with DHS are authorized under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to deploy the weapons and vaccines produced by Project BioShield on the US basic public under martial regulation throughout "rising terrorist threats" or public health emergencies. Both HHS and DHS have similar authorities via state-based legislation adopted from Model State Emergency Health Powers Act provisions. By 1953, the Federal Security Agency's programs in health, schooling, and social safety had grown to such importance that its annual budget exceeded the combined budgets of the Depa...