{"id":17211,"date":"2025-12-31T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hhs-freezes-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-requires-photo-evidence-across-country\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:32","slug":"hhs-freezes-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-requires-photo-evidence-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hhs-freezes-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-requires-photo-evidence-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS freezes child care payments to Minnesota; requires photo evidence across country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state&rsquo;s social services programs.  Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation into day care centers and other businesses&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5667412-federal-probe-minnesota-fraud\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state&rsquo;s social services programs. Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation into day care centers and other businesses&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}