Will Virginia Residents Enjoy Child Care Assistance?
Current home owners renters, and people who may potentially purchase or rent homes in Virginia may qualify to receive subsidies to help pay for child care. Currently there are hundreds of families in Virginia that qualify to receive subsidies, to help pay for child care, due to governor Timothy M. Kaine's budget proposal. This plan would allow for 2,500 children to be taken off the waiting list and actually start to receive help. This proposal calls for $12 million to be taken over two years to help aid low-income working families in sending their children to child care. Currently the state plans on taking the $12 million in federal money from the state's welfare program. As of now, there is extra money in Virginia's welfare program; due to an overestimated projection of Virginia residents who will actually collect a welfare check. Virginia is not the only state that is struggling to provide funding for its low-income working families, which do not collect welfare, but do meet the criteria to receive federal help.
Governor Kaine has attached this plan to his two ear $78 billion budget, which still is awaiting approval by the General Assembly. An interesting fact to note about this plan is that it is the first time since 2001 that there was a significant funding increase, in the budget for childcare support. In the house of Delegates there has been some skepticism from certain members of the Republican party. These skeptics are not sure that the state should grant an increase of funding currently due to the tight budget and the fact that this plan will require continuous funding. Currently the Federal Government is responsible to provide funding for programs similar to Governor Kaine's proposal. A fact to note is that according to a study taken in 2007 by the Office of Management and Budget, there were 150,000 less children receiving help in child care assistance in 2006 compared to 2000. This study also predicted if the funding structure remains constant this number will jump all the way up to 300,000 by the year 2010.
what this plan will do and requirements to qualify for subsidy help
This plan will help families with both children that are too young to go to school and families that have children that are currently attending school. For children that are infants or are to young for school, this plan will pay for a significant portion of an all day care center. If you are eleven or younger, the program will pay a portion of the cost to send your children to afternoon care service. Families that qualify for this assistance have incomes between 150 and 250 percent of federal poverty level. As of November, this project had a waiting list of 9,500 children but independent estimates show that his number should be closer to 11,000. Supporters of this program believe that it is a step in the right direction since it will allow workers to stay employed by helping allow parents to remain at work for longer periods of time.
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