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Criteria for child care voucher eligibility and recertification plans
0:21:18
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Commissioner Dannhauser explains the criteria for child care voucher eligibility and the city's plans for recertifying existing recipients. The discussion focuses on how ACS will manage the voucher program given the funding constraints.
- Eligibility criteria: under 300% of federal poverty level, unhoused, or children with special needs
- 95% or more of currently enrolled families meet these criteria
- ACS plans to continue recertifying most existing recipients while maintaining a waitlist for new applicants
Justin L. Brannan
0:21:18
What are the criteria?
Jess Dannhauser
0:21:19
Those criteria are 300%, under 300% of the federal poverty level, unhoused or children with special needs.
0:21:28
Chair this is 95 plus percent of families, children who are currently enrolled.
0:21:33
So the vast majority of families we are going to continue to recertify upon their annual recertification request unless they're uneligible for another reason, aged out income.
0:21:46
And so this plan will allow us to continue to do that for the foreseeable future.
0:21:52
We have to continue to assess that this $350,000,000 in match is one time, and so we don't know what happens after that.
0:22:01
We also could have shortfalls, so we have to continue to assess over the year.
0:22:07
But for the foreseeable future we're going to be able to implement this plan of recertifying, we're gonna keep a close eye to see if we can open to any in the wait list.
0:22:16
So by and large we're able for the time being to achieve continuity, but I have to say the state has really made the city, stuck stuck the city with the bill, with the 500% increase in the maintenance of effort in particular.