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Annual expenditures for child care vouchers from fiscal year 2019 to 2025
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Commissioner Jess Dannhauser provides a detailed breakdown of annual expenditures for child care vouchers from federal fiscal year 2019 to 2025, as requested by Council Member Althea Stevens.
- Expenditures show a general upward trend, with a dip during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Notable figures include $416 million in FY2019, dropping to $319 million in FY2021 due to COVID-19.
- Spending rebounded to $607 million in FY2023 and $901 million in FY2024.
- The commissioner notes that FY2025 is not yet complete but is expected to be much higher than previous years.
Althea Stevens
0:38:38
Can you provide the committee with actual annual expenditures for child care vouchers dating back to fiscal twenty nineteen?
Jess Dannhauser
0:38:45
Sure.
0:38:46
For federal fiscal year 2019 we have $416,000,000, for federal 2020 '4 '13 million, for federal '21 '3 '19 million.
0:39:00
You can see the dip there because of the COVID.
0:39:02
Federal fiscal year '20 '2 begins to come back up at $349,000,000.
0:39:07
Federal fiscal year '23 it is $6.00 7,000,000.
0:39:11
And federal fiscal year twenty four is $9.00 1,000,000 and we don't have 20 we're not done with 2025 yet but expect to be much higher.