{"id":3557,"date":"2009-02-16T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2012-06-05T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T03:06:35","slug":"steal-hundreds-of-thousands-from-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/steal-hundreds-of-thousands-from-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From Wisconsin, and All They’ll Do Is Politely Ask You to Give It Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"No, that headline isn’t created for any sort of shock value. It’s the simple truth. If you steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State of Wisconsin through a (welfare) child care program, all they’ll do is ask you politely (three times) to give the money back.\u00a0 If you don’t, they’ll leave you alone forever.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a good business opportunity, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has shined a light on this completely mismanaged welfare program which flushes millions of dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet each year. The story a couple of weeks ago<\/a> was about how the state doesn’t really verify the work claimed by ther welfare recipients, nor the attendance at daycare of their children. This leads to the state paying for a whole lot of childcare that isn’t needed or is not provided.<\/p>\n

This week’s story<\/a> is about how easy it is to steal from the state through the child care welfare program and never have to pay the money back.\u00a0 The newspaper reports:<\/p>\n

The state has overpaid day care providers at least $13.7 million in recent years – including millions of dollars spent on bogus child care that was never delivered, according to the state’s own records.<\/p>\n

When regulators have tried to collect the misspent taxpayer-funded money, parents and providers have stiffed the state to the tune of $6.4 million, the Journal Sentinel has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/p>\n

The state has no system to collect from providers that go out of business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the best part:<\/p>\n

The state sends three notices reminding providers of their debt. If the providers fail to respond, the collection process typically ends, officials said.<\/p>\n

Tender Moments Child Care center on W. Capitol Drive got three notices – and ignored them all. State officials say the center owes $850,000 that it received in overpayments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So three nice letters asking you to return the money, and if you ignore them, they leave you alone. Anyone want to start a daycare center with me? Something tells me we could make a whole lot of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, that headline isn’t created for any sort of shock value. It’s the simple truth. If you steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State of Wisconsin through a (welfare) child care program, all they’ll do is ask you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-fraud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-Vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}