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 WHAT ARE THE SIGNS THAT THIS IS A SCAM?

 A licensed or Certified Child Care provider:

 Asks you to sign the voucher at the beginning of the voucher period, and never allows you to review the days and hours billed, OR, signs the voucher without your permission;

Offers to split the voucher money with you in exchange for your signature on falsified vouchers;

Asks you to request additional payment for full-time child care so that the provider is paid more, or asks you to misrepresent the time your child spent in the provider's care on the voucher to avoid overlaps in the amount of children being cared for by the provider;

Refuses to give you a receipt for payments made for services;

Requires you to submit a voucher when care is no longer being provided.

A child care consumer:

Utilizes child care services unnecessarily while not working or attending school;

Offers to split the voucher money with you;

Asks you to bill for more time than the child care provided so the excess payment can be obtained.


 HOW CAN CONSUMERS PROTECT THEMSELVES?

Providers should collect the voucher on the first day that care is provided.

Consumers should always sign the voucher at the end of the voucher period, reviewing the days and hours billed.

Consumers and providers should have an agreement regarding the hours that child care will be provided, and the vouchers should reflect that agreement.

Consumers should request a receipt for all payments received/made for consumer co-payments and other charges for services.

Consumers should stop in unannounced and observe the provider's business.

Consumers and providers should report all changes to child care promptly.


HOW TO REPORT IF YOU'VE BEEN A VICIM

Hamilton County Child Care Services: If you suspect that you have participated or been the victim of child care fraud, you should immediately call 513-946-1800.