The Future of Secure Child Care Funding Depends on Modern Infrastructure

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TOOTRiS Issues Statement on the Recent Actions Towards Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Allocations

Two things can be true at the same time: Taxpayers deserve absolute certainty their money is not being stolen, and working families deserve absolute certainty that their child care will not disappear.”

— Alessandra Lezama, CEO of TOOTRiS

SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, January 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As the federal government expands oversight of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) through new “Defend the Spend” actions, TOOTRiS, a technology-driven Child Care ecosystem powering Child Care Resource & Referral organizations, care subsidy distribution systems, and employer Child Care benefit programs, issued the following statement regarding the balance between fiscal integrity and family stability.

With disruptions to federal funding now impacting multiple states, the landscape of Child Care administration has fundamentally shifted. The era of releasing funds and auditing later is coming to an end, as the Department of Health and Human Services federal standards now require real-time justification, attendance verification, and “dollar-level” defensibility before funds are released.

“I believe two things can be true at the same time: Taxpayers deserve absolute certainty that their money is not being stolen, and working families deserve absolute certainty that their child care will not disappear,” said Alessandra Lezama, CEO of TOOTRiS & select member of the ReadyNation CEO Task Force on Early Childhood. “We do not have to choose between fighting fraud and feeding families. The technology exists today to do both.”

Structural Integrity vs. Manual Audits

Current disruptions are not caused by a lack of intent, but a lack of infrastructure. Asking states to validate millions of daily Child Care transactions using paper logs and manual audits is a mathematical impossibility that leads to error rates as high as 11% in some regions.

Modern technology replaces this friction with structural compliance:

- Attendance-Based Verification: Digital attendance tracking verifies care delivery before payment is issued, ensuring all tax dollars flow to valid Child Care enrollments.

- Real-Time Digital Receipts: Transactions are time-stamped, geo-tagged, and auditable instantly, satisfying any future requirements for digital evidence.

- Proactive Payment Integrity: By validating provider eligibility and enrollment at the point of service, fraud is prevented structurally rather than detected retroactively.

A Model That Works

States that have modernized their oversight are already seeing results. Their data-driven systems have successfully identified and recouped improper payments while keeping funds flowing to compliant providers. In contrast, states relying on manual verification face existential delays that threaten the solvency of legitimate small business providers.

The Path Forward

“At TOOTRiS, we believe the path forward is not about choosing between oversight and outcomes - it’s about designing systems that deliver both. Funding earmarked for technology needs to be given to each state that allows for new infrastructure, providing the 100% transaction visibility the federal government needs and taxpayers deserve. When accountability is powered by real-time technology, everyone benefits,” Lezama added.

Jeff McAdam
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