Wisconsin Shares Crackdown Saving $45 Million This Year

by Kids Forward | May 21, 2010

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A new analysis by state regulators has determined that the crackdown on fraud in the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program will result in $45 million in savings this year alone. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that officials “say the savings comes from cutting funding to more than 170 providers suspected of cheating the program, deterring scammers from entering the system on the front end, as well as stepped up efforts to recover misspent money.” Some of the money is being reinvested in monitoring and detection of misuse in the program. Another $10 is tentatively being reserved for implementation of YoungStar, the proposed child care quality rating and improvement system that is still awaiting final approval by the state legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, which is expected to take up funding for YoungStar in June.

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