Child Care Scholarships for Essential Workers
| Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that NYS will provide child care scholarships to essential workers. |
| Essential workers include first responders such as health care providers, pharmaceutical staff, law enforcement, firefighters, food delivery workers, grocery store employees and others who are needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. |  |
| Child care costs will be covered with $30 million in federal CARES Act funding for essential staff whose income is less than 300 percent of the federal poverty level – or $78,600 for a family of four – and will be paid at market rate for each region statewide.
Essential workers can use the funding to pay for their existing care arrangement. . The Governor also announced the CARES funding will also be used to purchase supplies for child care providers statewide who remain open, including masks, gloves, diapers, baby wipes, baby formula and food. Child care resource and referral agencies will receive grants totaling approximately $600 per provider. Essential workers who need child care and child care providers who need supplies should contact their local branch of the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country:
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Posted: April 24th, 2020 under Heathcare News, State Government News.