GAO-19-519: Published: Sep 13, 2019. Publicly Released: Oct 2, 2019.

The Head Start program helps children from low-income families get ready to attend school. We attempted to enroll fictitious children in 15 Head Start centers using information that should have disqualified our applications, such as pay stubs that exceeded income requirements. We found: Potential fraud at 5 centers. For example, in 3 cases, we retrieved our applications and found they had been do...