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The 2001 changes made to day care eligibility determination and payment authorization have left the department with a diminished ability to oversee clients and day care providers to verify that they're doing the work they're billing the state for. These changes have proven disastrous to families and to job accessibility. That's unacceptable -- we cannot continue with a system that provides limited ability to track where taxpayer money goes. The money we save preventing fraud can be invested back into the day care system, which will save taxpayer dollars and increase access to jobs.