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Current status of child care voucher waiting list and renewals
0:32:24
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Commissioner Jess Dannhauser provides information on the current status of the child care voucher waiting list and the process for renewals. Council Member Althea Stevens asks follow-up questions to clarify the situation.
- Dannhauser reveals that there are currently zero families on the waiting list, but new additions will start this week.
- The eligibility determination process takes 10-15 days, with typically a couple thousand applications received each month.
- ACS has continued to process recertifications with state approval and will move to priority categories immediately.
- Most families will continue to be eligible under federal priorities, including those at 300% of the federal poverty line, unhoused families, and children with special needs.
Jess Dannhauser
0:32:24
Technically, Chair, we have zero.
0:32:25
They'll start to be added this week.
0:32:27
It takes about ten to fifteen days to do an eligibility determination.
0:32:32
So those families who are found eligible from May 5 and forward will be placed on the wait list.
0:32:40
Typically we get a couple thousand or more applications each month, and so we'll be able to share those numbers with you shortly as they're coming in.
Althea Stevens
0:32:52
So has ECS continued to process the childcare voucher renewals or has some clients also being placed are those clients also being placed on a wait list?
Jess Dannhauser
0:33:01
We have continued to process the the recertifications with the state approval.
0:33:06
We'll begin immediately moving to the priority categories, but again this is virtually all families will continue under those federal priorities of 300% of the federal poverty line, unhoused, and children with special needs.