Minnesota Department of Human Services officials allegedly discovered widespread fraud in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program — then quickly disabled the very safeguard that exposed it, according to explosive new whistleblower testimony.
Former DHS employee Scott Stillman told a Minnesota House committee that when officials briefly activated IP address tracking, they immediately detected fraudulent logins from overseas, including Japan. Just two weeks later, the tracking system was reportedly turned off, leaving the state’s welfare payment system vulnerable once again.
Republican state Rep. Krista Knudsen reacted to the testimony, condemning the state agency for “incompetence.”
One video of the testimony went viral, racking up over 500,000 views by Thursday afternoon.
While speaking to the committee, Stillman said Minnesota officials wanted to find out who was billing and from where. They quickly learned the state’s system “was not designed to include IP numbers.”
“It’s a major oversight,” he said. “It’d be like buying a brand new car that didn’t have brakes.”
Officials insisted they needed IP addresses, so a state employee set up a “temporary IP trap,” according to Stillman.
“It took him a while, but he was able to trap the IP numbers, and he saw people from Japan logging into our state system to bill for CCAP,” he said, apparently referencing the Child Care Assistance Program exposed for potential fraud.
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