\u201cWe take a zero-tolerance approach to fraud,\u201d\u202fGandhi emphasized.\u202f\u201cEnough is enough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
DHS is urging swift CMS approval as it works to wind down the existing program and prepare for a more secure and effective replacement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
State lawmakers also responded to the DHS move, including Representative Kristin Robbins (R-Maple Grove), Chair of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, and House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring).<\/p>\n
“The shutdown of this program confirms what we feared all along: this fraud goes far deeper than the few raids and arrests made public so far. DHS has failed in its duty to protect taxpayers and vulnerable Minnesotans, and there must be full accountability for the mismanagement that allowed this to happen,” Rep. Robbins said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFriday afternoon\u2019s surprise announcement from the Walz Administration is the right decision, but it\u2019s too little, too late. Once again, state agencies failed to catch fraud in real time,” House Speaker Demuth said. \u201cInstead of doing what was necessary on the front end to ensure this program wouldn\u2019t follow the administration\u2019s pattern of allowing obscene levels of fraud, they ducked accountability by simply shutting down the program\u2014penalizing the people who needed it most. Minnesotans deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe take a zero-tolerance approach to fraud,\u201d\u202fGandhi emphasized.\u202f\u201cEnough is enough.\u201d\u00a0 DHS is urging swift CMS approval as it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-54139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}