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State Suspends Payments to 36 Child Care Providers

Posted in: Subsidy Programs, Wisconsin
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November 19, 2009

EXCERPT FROM: WKOW 27
By Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state suspended payments to 36 child care providers in October based on suspicions of fraud.


The state Department of Children and Families reported the latest figures to the Legislature's budget committee in a letter this week.


Of the 36 that were suspended under the troubled Wisconsin Shares program, 30 were in Milwaukee County. 2 of the 36 that were suspended have since been reinstated.


The program is designed to pay child care costs for poor people so they can work. There are more than 60,000 children in the program statewide.


Full text available at WKOW 27.


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