States sue to block feds from sharing personal data of millions who receive social service benefits(ASSOCIATED PRESS) – Associated Press reports that More than 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families. The case is the latest legal action between states and the federal government over the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which, like other public programs, has come under scrutiny from the Trump administration as a source of potential fraud. A federal government lawyer later said the move was largely in response to news reports about possible fraud. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program provides more than $16 billion to states, D.C. and tribal governments in the form of grants that the local governments then have broad discretion to use to help low-income families through cash assistance, job training or other programs. The federal Administration for Children and Families declined to comment Monday.