State fails to investigate daycares with no children despite media reports
Auditors found a lack of prepayment controls and said a random sample of 59 payments exposed more than a dozen improper claims.
- State Auditor Pat McCarthy's office released an audit in late March identifying $37 million in questionable childcare subsidy payments distributed by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families using federal funds.
- The Center Square visited approximately three dozen daycares over six months, finding few children present at facilities receiving hundreds of thousands in state and federal subsidies for lower-income childcare.
- One West Seattle home received more than $229,000 over nine months, yet residents repeatedly told The Center Square there was no daycare at the location, nor had there been.
- Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, criticized DCYF Secretary Tana Senn in a May 22 interview, saying the agency under her leadership is "a mess" and "has the reverse-King Midas touch."
- Vice President JD Vance threatened on May 12 to withhold federal Medicaid funds from states failing to crack down on fraud, after blocking $1.3 billion in reimbursements for 800 California hospices suspected of defrauding taxpayers.
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Washington state fails to investigate daycares with no children despite media reports | The Highland County Press
Many Washington state daycare providers receive large taxpayer subsidies, but an investigation by The Center Square found several that had few, if any, children and at least one establishment that received hundreds of thousands of dollars despite residents at the listed address indicating it was not a daycare.
State doesn’t investigate daycares with no children after media reports
Many Washington state daycare providers receive large taxpayer subsidies, but an investigation by The Center Square found several that had few, if any, children and at least one establishment that received hundreds of thousands of dollars despite residents at the listed address indicating it was not a daycare. Yet politicians charged with overseeing the spending continue to publicly say there is no problem with improper payments to the daycares …
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State fails to investigate daycares with no children despite media reports
(The Center Square) - Many Washington state daycare providers receive large taxpayer subsidies. But an investigation by The Center Square found several that had few, if any, children and at least one establishment that received hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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