HHS Pauses Funding For Child Care in Minnesota as Fraud Allegations Grow

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that it is halting all funding for child care to Minnesota as federal investigations into alleged systemwide fraud continue to grow this week. “We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill wrote on the social platform X. “We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud.” The department has also taken action to fight fraud, which O’Neil said appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country. This is a breaking news article and will be updated....