Day Care Subsidy Cut Postponed

Daycare Dhr Alabama DHR puts off cuts in the subsidized daycare program for 1 month

by Associated Press

Published: Fri, March 13, 2009 - 1:39 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, March 13, 2009 - 1:43 pm CST

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state Department of Human Resources
is postponing cuts for one month in its subsidized day-care program
for low-income working families.
The department had been planning to cut about 3,000 children
from the program on April 1, but the department announced Friday it
was delaying that until May 1. Department officials say a federal
appropriation approved by Congress on Tuesday is allowing the
postponement.
The department has been grappling with program cuts due to
declining state funding. The subsidized program helps pay the
day-care costs for working parents who are below 150 percent of the
federal poverty level. The department had been planning to cut that
to 120 percent on April 1.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Wait4Me Says:

Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:46 pm

change and hope, hope and change? Propaganda for the ruin of America.

Mom2AngelBaby Says:

Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm

I agree hateit..I am paying $80 bucks a week for my son to attend daycare. Only making $14,000 gross a year $2200 a yr of that is my BC/BS family coverage because he’s not on medicaide and were not even talking taxes withheld. I applied for assistance, but after a year of remaining on the waiting list I had no choice but to pay for it. Made me sick to see women with four kids and only paying $10 bucks for all of them and I only have one child!!! There should be a limit as to how many kids they will help pay for and for that matter as long as they continue to pay nearly the full amount, why should they try to get a better job. They can work part time and qualify and that goes for ALL government funded things! But, you know I get up and go to work everyday with a smile on my face just knowing I have a fulltime job to go to. Times get hard but I get through. When I was a kid mom says they didn’t have stuff like this so why have things changed to make it eaiser for the lazy ones.