{"id":14486,"date":"2025-12-31T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:20:33","slug":"hhs-freezes-mn-child-care-payments-amid-daycare-fraud-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"HHS Freezes MN Child Care Payments Amid Daycare Fraud Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following revelations of fraud, especially fraud involving daycares, the Department of Health and Human Services froze all child care payments to the state of Minnesota.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Let the IFA community know how to pray for you.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the Daily Wire:\n<\/p>\n<p>HHS has taken three actions \u201c<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">against the blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country,\u201d he explained. The first action: activating HHS\u2019 \u201cDefend the Spend system,\u201d requiring justification and a receipt or photo evidence before they send money to a state.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">The second action hinges directly on journalist Nick Shirley\u2019s investigative work over the past few months: [HHS Deputy Secretary Jim] O\u2019Neill says that he and his colleagues have identified the individuals in Shirley\u2019s video, and are demanding a \u201ccomprehensive audit of these centers,\u201d including attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, inspections, and more.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>HHS said its third action is launching a fraud reporting hotline and email address where parents, providers, and members of the public can submit tips.<\/p>\n<p>Both HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O\u2019Neil and Administration for Children &amp; Families Assistant Secretary Alex Adams announced these actions in an X video posted Tuesday evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>This announcement follows the revelation of severe fraud in Minnesota that came last week. Last Friday, citizen journalist Nick Shirley revealed that many of the state\u2019s Somali-run daycares shockingly had no children enrolled. Shirley appeared on Fox News over the weekend, calling the apparent fraud in Minnesota \u201cobvious.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Fraud is nothing new in Minnesota, and we\u2019ve been covering the extension fraud that occurred in the state for months now. However, it is encouraging to know that, immediately following Shirley\u2019s video, the Trump administration sprang into action.\n<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s continue to pray for our federal officials as they work to stop this fraud and hold those responsible accountable!\n<\/p>\n<h4>How are you praying about the fraud in Minnesota? Share your prayers and scriptures below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from the Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Office of Governor Tim Walz &amp; Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan \u2013 https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mngov\/53829006445\/, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=150643869)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Following revelations of fraud, especially fraud involving daycares, the Department of Health and Human Services froze all child care payments to the state of Minnesota. Let the IFA community know how to pray for you. \u00a0 From the Daily Wire: HHS has taken three actions \u201cagainst the blatant fraud that appears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[146,3694,4315,3058,4314,3677,1662,1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-14486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-care","9":"tag-child","10":"tag-daycare","11":"tag-fraud","12":"tag-freezes","13":"tag-hhs","14":"tag-payments","15":"tag-scandal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}