DHS' Temporary Commissioner Shireen Gandhi wrote a letter Friday to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requesting to end the program.

DHS Temporary Commissioner Shireen Gandhi on Friday made a request of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take the "unprecedented step" to end the program, which uses Medicaid funding to locate and maintain homes for Minnesotans with disabilities, mental illnesses, and substance abuse disorders.

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services is moving to terminate a Medicaid-funded housing assistance program after federal law enforcement announced it was investigating a “massive” fraud scheme that likely lost the state millions.