Under the child care subsidy program, agencies may subsidize some of the child care tuition expenses of employees whose incomes fall below thresholds they determine. Image: NadyaEugene/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe administration has ordered OPM to review the child care subsidy program for federal employees while encouraging all agencies to “to expand employee access to child care services through federal child care centers, child care subsidies, or contracted care providers.”
Those provisions were part of an executive order on making child care more affordable and accessible in general, which also included instructions to DoD to improve recruitment and retention at the child care centers it operates for military personnel, some of which are open to enrollments of children of its civilian employees on a space-available basis.
The executive order meanwhile told OPM to “consider establishing criteria that support equitable and accessible employee participation in child care programs, to include agencies’ adoption of income thresholds that are aligned with increasing costs of child care.”
Under the child care subsidy program, agencies may subsidize some of the child care tuition expenses of employees whose incomes fall below thresholds they determine. Agencies also set the amount of funds they allocate, how their programs will be structured and how they will be administered. The care must be licensed and/or regulated, whether center-based care or family child care.
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