Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd has released the annual federal single audit report. Her office found $93.4 million of questioned costs in FY 2023.

But state senators say this isn’t new information, saying they’ve been working on solutions for years now.

The current director of DHS, Jeffrey Cartmell, was appointed in late 2024, more than a year after the end of the fiscal year the audit was looked at.

“When director Cartmell first became director, I had told him he should probably ask for an audit so that everything that happened in the past is not blamed on him,” said Senate Health and Human Services Chairman Paul Rosino.

The main issue at hand is how Oklahoma Human Services spent the Federal Child Care Development Grant, which is federal COVID-relief money. Byrd said

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