Minnesota’s anti-fraud spending has quietly ballooned, leaving taxpayers to pay for failure twice

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In the wake of a years-long $250 million welfare fraud scheme, Minnesota taxpayers will now finance a pricey state-level cleanup effort, effectively paying for the failure twice after state officials missed repeated warning signs.

The Feeding Our Future scheme exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program administered by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, siphoning money meant to provide meals to low-income kids. It now stands as the nation’s largest COVID-19 fraud case.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT MINNESOTA’S ‘FEEDING OUR FUTURE’ FRAUD

An audit from the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor sheds light on how the scheme went unchecked for so long, finding that the MDE’s oversight was “inadequat