Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Tennessee Got Busted Big Time By Feds In $9 Million Child Abuse Adoption Fraud Schemes

The federal Tennessee foster care-adoption audit starts off like this:
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services (State agency) did not
always comply with Federal eligibility requirements when claiming Title
IV-E adoption assistance for Federal reimbursement for fiscal years (FY)
2006 through 2008.
Then it only gets juicier from there.
We identified 83 ineligible beneficiaries for whom
the State agency received $2.1 million (Federal share) in Federal
reimbursement for FYs 2006 through 2008. 
The plot only thickens...
In addition, the State agency
claimed $24,000 (Federal share) for one child whom the State agency
initially concluded to be eligible for adoption assistance; however, the
initial eligibility determination was made in error.
Just when you think it is about to be over....
Furthermore, we are setting aside adoption assistance claims for 854 of
the 1,500 children in our sample, totaling $7.5 million (Federal share),
for resolution by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and
the State agency.  The State agency did not provide documentation to
support adoption assistance eligibility for these 854 children in a
reasonable amount of time for our review because the State agency did
not maintain eligibility files as required by Federal regulations.
But wait, here is the best part....

No one is going to get in trouble. 

None of the children who were not suppose to be in foster care or who were not suppose to be adopted will ever go back home. 

No one will be prosecuted and the child welfare fraud schemes will continue, in another name and another program, and child abuse propaganda machines will ask for more funding to stop child abuse.

The following United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Report is documentation of human trafficking and child abuse.



Review of Title IV-E Adoption Assistance Maintenance Payments in Tennessee for the Period October 1, 2005, ...

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