JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mississippi Department of Human Services is getting a reprieve on having to repay nearly $101 million funds misspent as part of the state’s largest welfare scandal.

On Friday, 3 On Your Side obtained a letter from the Administration for Children and Families informing MDHS that it was rescinding the penalty letter issued late last year and expected to issue a new one at the “appropriate time.”

[ READ: Federal Agency asks the state to repay $101 million dollars in Mississippi welfare case ]

The letter was sent to MDHS in April in response to its request seeking more time to “review documentation related to the penalty.”

According to its website, ACF works to promote “the economic and social well-being of families, children, youth, individuals and communit

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