"For several reasons, Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) is rife "with a higher risk of errors, improper payments, and fraud,” a recent state auditor’s report concluded....The DHS “did not implement sufficient program integrity controls for licensing child care providers,” the legislative auditor reported, and “lacked some key controls to identify errors and to inhibit, track, and recover improper payments.”
CCAP is authorized and supported through block grants from the federal Child Care and Development Fund.
In Fiscal Year 2018, 4,549 childcare providers received at least some CCAP payments to provide services to nearly 120,000 children.
Total CCAP payments to these providers were estimated at approximately $254 million..."
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