CONNECTICUT — Three separate caregiver-payment cases produced nearly $35,000 in excess payments by the Department of Children and Families, according to NBC Connecticut’s October 28 reporting on a September state auditors’ report.
The outlet reports amounts of $8,678, $18,587 and approximately $7,400. The cases involved payment-entry errors, continued payments after eligibility changed and a delay updating placement information.
One reported weakness involved eligibility forms that were not returned. NBC says DCF acknowledged that missing forms had not routinely triggered a payment stop. In another case, its system identified an overpayment but did not alert the agency that automatic recovery was unavailable.
DCF told NBC that it had made changes including additional staff training, oversight and staff assignments to help supervise subsidy payments.
The outlet says these three cases are separate from an earlier incident involving more than $1 million in duplicate payments through the CT-KIND case-management system. They should not be treated as one newly discovered combined loss.
The reported amounts describe overpayments. This article does not establish the current outstanding balance, final collection results or wrongdoing by every recipient.
This AI-written report was prepared from Katherine Loy and Len Besthoff’s complete NBC Connecticut report. Eastern CT News did not obtain the underlying September audit or independently inspect DCF payment records. The findings and agency response are attributed to NBC; identifying details about children and families are omitted.
File photo: a DCF-marked building exterior carried with NBC Connecticut’s report. It does not depict a caregiver, a child or a payment transaction.