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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family was investigated a few years ago following an enrollment audit.  Simply because I signed our child's enrollment forms but we used a copy of DH's license as proof of residency.  We both have the same last name and we all live together, but I recall it taking several weeks, phone calls and meetings to straighten out.  How do people who really are cheating manage to dodge these investigations???[/quote]

The family I know who was investigated were granted a hearing. They gave a sob story about bad financial and other circumstances requiring child to live with grandma.  Meanwhile child did not live with grandma and parents are both gainfully employed MD taxpayers.  It’s quite easy to falsify an informal custody arrangement under the regs - all that is needed is a letter from the parent stating kid is living with someone else. [/quote]

So what happened - were they booted and forced to pay for the previous time in DCPS?[/quote]

Nope their case was dismissed after the hearing. [/quote]

And this is part of the problem.  When you only have one employee investigating residency fraud and what appears to be minimal resources for that office, you can't do things like... send an investigator to sit outside the MD house for a while to see where the children are actually sleeping.  [/quote]

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