DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A newspaper reports that the state of Ohio has opened dozens of fraud investigations of taxpayer-funded day care centers following an overhaul designed to detect abuse in the program.
The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/SvKV5P ) reports that the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has 64 open investigations in 21 counties of state-funded daycare centers.
The centers are operated both out of homes and small businesses. They're run by private providers reimbursed by the state for watching children of low-income, working parents.
In January, the state spent $6 million to switch to a new billing method to try to weed out dishonest day care centers billing for nonexistent childcare. In March, the state created an anti-fraud unit.
A state spokesman declined to provide more details of the investigations.
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Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com
