A Massachusetts couple previously accused of stealing money from a fraudulent GoFundMe meant to help a homeless man has now also been accused of stealing more than $267,000 from welfare programs.

Rachel Kadis, 32, and her husband, Brian Ferreira, 34, were arraigned on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to various theft and fraud charges.

The couple is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits they did not qualify for from federal and state programs including Social Security, SNAP and MassHealth.

Kadis allegedly spent years telling the welfare programs that she was a single mother raising her four children alone without financial assistance from Ferreira, prosecutors said in court on Wednesday, per The Enterprise.

But investigators with various departments including the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office and Bridgewater Police claim that the entire time, the couple was actually living together in the comfortable $605,000 Bridgewater home they rent.

Kadis allegedly forged the couple’s lease to remove any mention of her husband and submitted the document to the welfare programs to receive benefits, prosecutors said.

Investigators allegedly determined that while the couple was receiving the benefits, Ferreira was earning a healthy living as a robotics engineer, and his employer offered family health benefits and paid leave, which he made use of.

The husband was also allegedly receiving additional payments from the Veterans Administration, as he was deployed in Afghanistan for nine months before his active military service ended in December 2020.

Investigators said the couple received $45,500 from Social Security Income, $34,600 from SNAP, $167,000 from MassHealth, $6,200 from Mass SSI State Supplement Program and $14,500 from Rental Assistance for Families in Transition.

During the arraignment hearing on Wednesday, Kadis pleaded not guilty to 17 charges including multiple counts of false statements under penalty of perjury, larceny over $1,200 by single scheme and uttering false writing and forgery.

Ferreira pleaded not guilty to three charges including receiving stolen property over $1,200 by single scheme, misleading a criminal and/or civil investigation and conspiracy to defraud the MassHealth program.

The couple was released on personal recognizance under the condition that they have no contact with witnesses. Ferreira was also ordered not to leave Massachusetts except for business trips.

Kadis’s court-appointed lawyer, Ryan Matthews, told the Boston Globe that his client legitimately applied for the welfare programs after her marriage to Ferreira ‘fell apart.’

He claimed that when the husband returned from his deployment, he suffered from PTSD and the couple broke up, leaving Kadis to fend for herself financially.

In a separate case last year, Kadis and Ferreira were accused of creating a GoFundMe for a local homeless man named Gregory Bobst, 66, and stealing the nearly $18,000 earned by the fundraiser.

The couple created the GoFundMe on March 11, 2025, then invited Bobst to live in the basement of their home on April 1.

The relationship between the homeless man and the couple turned sour after about a month and a half and he moved out of the property.

On June 8, he reported to police that the couple had been stealing the money from his GoFundMe and refused to give him the funds.

Investigators claimed that Kadis and Ferreira had been using the money to pay for expenses including their mortgage, hotel stays and a house cleaner.

Bobst died on July 1 without ever receiving a penny, police said.

The couple was charged with larceny over $1,200 by single scheme, fiduciary embezzlement and misleading a police officer in that case.

They have denied wrongdoing and said all the money from the GoFundMe either went to helping Bobst or was refunded to donors.

The case remains pending and will play out in the same court where the couple is fighting their more recent, unrelated case.