Report: Minnesota Child Care Agency Never Verified Attendance, Addressed Fraud Tips
What else will we find out!?
The New York Post learned that Minnesota’s child care agency never verified attendance records at the centers or followed up on any fraud tips.
Anyone shocked?
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- HHS Freezes Child Care Payments to Minnesota Amid Daycare Fraud Allegations
- Minnesota: DHS Inspecting Over 30 Sites of Suspected Fraud
The outlet obtained a letter that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families sent to Minnesota:
HHS’ Administration for Children and Families informed Minnesota officials that its handling of the distribution of federal taxpayer dollars for child care in the state had “not established adequate controls to verify the accuracy of county-issued provider payments based on attendance of children.”
As a result, child care centers could get funding from counties — and counties could then bill the state and the federal government by extension — “without reconciling billed hours against attendance records, even periodically.”
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families also had “[l]imited staff and resources … to adequately pursue fraud tips and conduct proactive investigations,” Laurie Todd-Smith, HHS ACF deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development, wrote in the letter.
Minnesota assigned only four investigators to address fraud tips.
“Minnesota did not demonstrate that they are currently implementing required program integrity training for providers across the state,” wrote Todd-Smith.
The latest oversight visit revealed that HHS found Minnesota did not have a “mandatory, statewide process to obtain, review and act on county level single audits.”
The Trump administration already paused child care funding in Minnesota due to the many fraud allegations.
Minnesota’s former top prosecutor believes the fraud cost the state as much as $9 billion since 2018.
The Department of Children received $184,928,081 from HHS in 2025.
HHS Assistant Secretary Alex Adams said Minnesota should spend that money on more than 19,000 children and infants.
Adams said that the director of the Minnesota Child Care Services could not tell him “with confidence whether those allegations of fraud are isolated or whether there’s fraud stretching statewide.”
In January, HHS warned Minnesota that it could have to repay funds to the Department of Children if officials did not provide attendance and inspection reports within 60 days.
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This appears to be intentional redirection of tax payer funds to support terrorism in Africa and the Somali community in MN. The question of why Waltz and the various allowed and facilitated this fraud is open. And the scale of these frauduent schemes appears to be nationwide.
Is there some sort of seminar blue mayors and governors go to that instructs them in the mechanics of stealing Federal money?
“The question of why Waltz and the various allowed and facilitated this fraud is open.”
The answer is obvious… a large portion of the graft was making it’s way back to their campaign coffers. They’re getting greased.
At a minimum, it was done for votes. But you’re right. The Dems couldn’t possibly have resisted skimming. They always overstep.
I think this is more than campaign funds. That’s the normal scam and doesn’t warrant as much effort on the part of Dems. I bet we find that Walz and others were personally getting the money.
Yes they are. No, we’ll never hear of it being proved or even looked into by the feds.
It’s not an open question as to why Walz allowed this to continue. He, his administration and the DFL want to remain in power so they were blatantly buying votes.
to verify the accuracy of … attendance of children
But they identified as having students there. Don’t you deny them their identity, you bigot!
love articles like this
Doged to the maxxx
kind of like not verifying voters id etc
the game is rigged against america
every penny sent their and to all lefty run orgs is used to defraud americans
well, those americans that believe in freedom from government
stop the alllll the charitable tax privileges
those of us who give
will continue to give
the blmplo armies are winning stop supplying them with the ammo
somalians main export is corruption
100% grade A corruption
What a surprise, the democrats hand out money to a bunch of thieving agencies which then the money works its way back to the democrats machine.
Aka, Omar the terrorist’s campaign….
Excuse me: “Omar and Bros,, LLC.”
black female(s?) refuse to serve pro trump people
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/us-news/2-employees-at-michigan-smoothie-king-location-fired-for-refusing-to-serve-man-in-trump-hoodie/
this is all part of the same somalian takeover of this country
emboldened by the omars and tlaibs and crookettes
wondering if these blackworkers are also collecting anyyyy tax funding??
It’s just as well; you can be sure that if you had a MAGA hat on, you would get a big dollop of the “special sauce.”
Suggested next steps:
1) suspend all DHHS funding to Minnesota. All of it. Inform the public that this is being done because the fraud is massive, endemic, and requires a complete re-establishing of the state agencies’ rules and regulations.
2) prepare indictments of the top 100 or so Minnesota state elected and appointed officials most responsible for the ongoing fraud. Endure the documentation is impeccable. Hold those indictments close.
3) let Minnesota sue to restore funds
4) when they do, release the indictments and documentation.
5) sit back, make a drink, and enjoy.
There’s at least an $80billion loss that they need to cover, so let them live without further funding.
Pardon me, I think I meant $9billion. And counting.
Yeah, $80 billion is Biden Arms Sweepstakes territory.
The whole ‘Minnesota Nice’ routine is outdated. It is a peek into the way the public culture of our Nation has transformed from a high trust society and how the enforcement mechanisms and program safeguards established in that era are no longer effective. One aspect of a high trust society is self regulation which is often motivated by fear of shaming the Family. That’s gone.
The public culture in 2026 doesn’t care about shame nor really fear consequences. An easy example is the way some behave at a simple traffic stop. Instead of being adult enough to take the L with an expired tag, cooperate with LEO they turn it into an ordeal. These idiots require 3 or 4 LEO on scene plus a supervisor to complete the encounter. Give me your license, registration, IN ..NO. Ok step out of the vehicle… No, call your supervisor. I will break the window and remove you if you refuse to exit… don’t care, Ima sue you… So they get a busted window, pepper spray in the passenger compartment, taser deployed, snatched out, hit/kick a LEO for a battery on LEO to go along with a resisting/obstruction charge, passengers get involved and catch charges, vehicle towed and impounded, everyone booked into jail, plus EMS on scene to evaluate injuries….. All this waste of resources for a simple traffic stop. Every LEO on this minor scene could have been elsewhere same.for EMS, plus lots of paperwork and potential injury. Same.for audits and proactive inspections gonna need far more personnel and much higher consequences to discourage or deter fraud in public programs.
Some today actually want this chaos. They fund and incite it. They are called Democrats. They have two obvious reasons: chaos can be exploited against Trump and Republicans for the midterms, and two, they are Marxists who hate America and want it destroyed and converted into their communist Shangri-la. Chaos is a means to the end.
A lot of the fraud would have been avoided if the government officials who approved the payments had actually visited the location to see what was happening.
Much of the Covid unemployment insurance payment fraud could have been avoided if the spprover had simply used Apple or Google maps to view the applicant’s mailing location. It is hard to mistake a prison for a single family home.
The Federal Government should determine the amount of fraud in each state and deduct that amount from the next year(s) payment to the state.
Slight quibble. Cut off ALL funds to the State until they submit repayment of funds lost to fraud. No ‘take it out of the next check’ and instead force the State to pony up the cash to repay before they get another dime in any program. If that means an emergency bond issue at unfavorable rates of interest then it serves as a deterrent to other States and probably forces some additional fiscal discipline on the State directly impacted.
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