MASSACHUSETTS IS NOT facing disruption to its $293 million share of federal child care payments after the Trump administration announced a nationwide freeze last week in response to fraud allegations in Minnesota, a top state official said Monday.
On December 30, US Health and Human Services deputy secretary Jim O’Neill announced the Administration for Children and Families froze all payments to Minnesota and that payments throughout the US would require “justification and a receipt or photo evidence” before funds are sent to states.
The changes are meant to address “the blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country,” O’Neill said in a December 30 post on X…