Key Facts — All Alleged
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| Who | Not specified |
| Amount | Not disclosed |
| Location | Not specified |
| Program | Not specified |
| Status | Alleged |
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Full Investigation Transcript
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Between the two of these childcare centers, they’re pulling in about $3 million a year and there are no children. Of course, so much attention right now focused on the child care facilities featured in this now viral video and whether the state was properly monitoring whether the centers were in fact caring for the number of kids they were licensed for to receive taxpayer funded assistance. This audit looked back at data collected in 2023, concluding that Minnesota quote did not comply with federal and state attendance documentation requirements for some payments made under its child care assistance program. Auditors looked at 200 randomly selected assistance payments, finding attendance related issues with 38 of those payments. By their math, the Fed’s estimated 11% of all payments were likely to have some flaw. For some perspective here, we are talking about $231.4 million in child care claims going to more than 1150 providers. Among the errors found, attendance records for a particular child were unavailable at the center site. Signin or sign out times were missing or included inaccurate dates. And in some instances, a child was marked absent by the provider, but that was not reflected in the government billing system. The audit contains three recommendations for the state moving forward, including collecting overp payments that the review exposed, providing better oversight of its child care assistance program, including routine reviews of attendance records, and continuing to automate attendance records through real-time electronic reporting for the child care providers. In a written response, the state agreed to follow up on all three. Paul Bloom, Fox