Washington state officials decline to investigate empty daycares for potential fraud

ThePostMillennial ^ | 7/13/26 | Ari Hoffman

[CFW]

Washington state officials are refusing to investigate daycare providers that reportedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer subsidies after reporters found little evidence that children were being cared for at some locations.

According to a report from The Center Square, over the past six months, its reporters visited roughly three dozen daycare providers that had received large state and federal subsidy payments intended to support childcare for lower-income families, but only a small number appeared to have children present.

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In one case, a daycare listed at a West Seattle address received more than $229,000 between July 2025 and March 2026, according to state fiscal records cited by The Center Square. But residents at the home reportedly told the outlet repeatedly that no daycare operated there. “Is there a daycare operated from here?” a Center Square reporter asked. “No," the person who answered the door responded. The resident also said there had never been a daycare at the address.

The outlet said it found a similar pattern during visits to other home-based daycares, including properties that received large sums in subsidies while showing little outward sign of children being cared for inside. At a Federal Way home-based daycare that reportedly received $223,247 over nine months, the homeowner called police when reporters and independent journalist Jonathan Choe visited the property. Officers told the woman that reporters were allowed to stand on the sidewalk, according to The Center Square.

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KEYWORDS: corruption; daycare; fraud; washingtonst

[CFW]

Of course they will not investigate the fraud. Washington officials benefit both financially and politically by ignoring and/or covering up for the fraud.

[ClearCase_guy]

Old Style: “I investigated myself and I determined that I am innocent.”

New Style: “I’m not even going to bother to investigate.”

[blackdog]

No lookie-No cashie.

[GOPJ]

K I C K B A C K S....

[sopo]

does Paxton have standing to sue, as federal funds expended; give Talarico something else to defend at risk of offending his donors.

[Sequoyah101]

State sanctioned theft of federal assets. There has to be a crime in that somewhere.

[Prince of Space]

Ppl who live in Washington state should decline to send in any state taxes they owe until their politicians start toeing the line.

[allendale]

The Democratic Party is controlled by criminal leftists.

[drypowder]

Oxymoron: honest politician.

[chuckee]

I do not mind if blue state taxpayer funds are being looted but not Federal funds. The Feds should refuse to continue funding on the grounds that there is enough prima facie evidence of fraud that the nation’s taxpayers will not support the state scheme.

[Steve_Seattle1]

"In one case, a daycare listed at a West Seattle address received more than $229,000 between July 2025 and March 2026, according to state fiscal records cited by The Center Square. But residents at the home reportedly told the outlet repeatedly that no daycare operated there. “Is there a daycare operated from here?” a Center Square reporter asked. “No," the person who answered the door responded. The resident also said there had never been a daycare at the address."

So, what address was the money sent to, and who got the money? Some fraudster could claim that the daycare was at address "A", but that the money be sent to his "office" at address "B". Address "A" could just be a random address that the fraudster decided to use, and the actual occupants might not know anything about it.

Also, it sounds like the state official is trying to turn this into a racial harassment story. I occasionally go to West Seattle and there's been a huge increase in African immigrants in recent years. Apparently, the official thinks that they should be above scrutiny.

[Carl Vehse]

Traitors!

[ProgressingAmerica]

Nobody is even asking.

Why is the federal government paying for daycare in the first place????

That’s not the proper role of government. All it does is make the prices of everything even higher, which necessitates more government.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Read Washington state but without the state. Whoops.

Still, there are federal investigations in places because of federal fraud on daycares.

[Be Free]

"All it does is make the prices of everything even higher, which necessitates more government."

You answered your own question ...

[aquila48]

Since it’s federal money, Trump should get involved.

[b4me]

if they can’t be bothered with investigating it (part of being responsible with monies), the should not be allowed zero Fed money.

[chopperk]

That’s the name of the game in Wa.

[Pete Dovgan]

“Old Style: “I investigated myself and I determined that I am innocent.”

New Style: “I’m not even going to bother to investigate.””

What do you expect the Socialists/Communists/Grifters to do?

[Vaduz]

Washington state sounds like a place where your a hook or on the hook?.