OLYMPIA, WA – Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy has no current plans to expand an ongoing state audit into the Department of Children, Youth and Families, despite reports of potential high-dollar payouts to many providers that don’t match up with allowable subsidies.
The Center Square interviewed McCarthy on Jan 22 to ask about the audit her office has underway, and to find out if the office will dig into what appears to show potential fraud.
“No, that’s not what we’re doing. What we’re doing is an audit related to DCYF as to how the money is processed to the providers,” McCarthy said. “What we do is we do this audit work and then we provide that information to the people that can do the enforcement, which would be the DSHS Fraud Investigative Unit or the AG’s Office Fraud Investigative Unit, and then they would determine who would actually take the next steps.”…