How much does community connections pay per child
Supplemental Rate Payments
In accordance with the agreement between Child Care Providers United (CCPU) and the state, supplemental rate payments for licensed family child care home and license-exempt (family, friend and neighbor) providers who serve children receiving subsidies are being issued consistent with a methodology established by CCPU. The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) is the entity selected to issue these payments to providers.
One-time payments were issued to eligible family child care providers in Spring and Summer 2022. In addition to the one-time payments, eligible providers will also receive monthly payments during Fiscal Year 2022-23 (July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023).
Payment Amounts
Starting in late August, monthly payments for July 2022 - December 2022 will be issued in the following amounts:
- Small licensed family child care provider: $750 per month
- Large licensed family child care provider: $900 per month
- License-exempt child care provider: $125 per month
Payment Eligibility
- Licensed providers who cared for one or more children receiving state-subsidized child care for at least three months from September 2021 to February 2022.
Licensed providers must have an active license.
- License-exempt (family, friend, and neighbor) providers who cared for one or more children receiving state-subsidized child care in December 2021, January 2022 and February 2022.
- Providers can fill out this form to verify their eligibility for a monthly supplemental rate payment until Nov. 1, 2022.
Eligibility for the monthly payments that will be issued from January 2023 to June 2023 will be determined at a later date.
Instructions to Receive Monthly Payment
- To receive your monthly payment, you must complete a W-9 form (the FoundationCCC will email eligible providers with a personalized link to the form).
- If you already completed a W-9 form to receive the one-time payment issued in Spring/Summer 2022, there is no need to complete another one unless you want to update your payment method.
- After submitting the form, you will receive a confirmation email.
There is no need to take further action or submit any additional documentation.
Payment Timeline
- If you submit complete information and a W-9 form by the August 10th deadline, or if you completed a W-9 already, you can expect to receive your first payment on or after August 31, 2022.
- The first payment will include the monthly payments for both July and August 2022.
Need Assistance?
- Call the Child Care Providers United Supplemental Pay Helpline at (916) 980-8998. Representatives are available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. PST with interpretation services as needed.
Visit the Foundation for California Community Colleges webpage for more information.
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Survey
These payments are funded in part by federal ARPA Stabilization funds. The state is required to collect data from providers on how these funds were used in order to comply with federal reporting requirements.
Please visit the CDSS ARPA Survey webpage to complete and submit the survey. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact CDSS at [email protected].
Any questions?
- Please see the FAQ section below,
- Visit the FCCC’s Supplemental Rate Payments webpage; or
- Call the FCCC Supplemental Rate Payment Hotline at (916) 980-8998.
What is the supplemental rate payment?
Pursuant to the agreement between the State of California and the Child Care Providers United (CCPU) union, and Assembly Bill (AB) 131 (Section 264), $289,000,000 in funding through June 2023 is available through reimbursement rate supplements to support eligible family child care providers in addressing equity in child care provider pay and increasing reimbursement rates. This supplemental pay was distributed in a one-time payment to eligible providers in fiscal year (FY) 22-23, to be followed by monthly payments to eligible providers in the next fiscal year.
I received an email about the supplemental rate payment. How do I receive my payment?
Follow the instructions in the email to verify your contact information and preferred method of payment (check or direct deposit), and provide a W-9. Complete information must be provided in order to receive payment. If you already completed a W-9 form to receive the one-time payment issued in Spring/Summer 2022, there is no need to complete another one to receive the monthly payments unless you want to update your payment method.
Who is eligible to receive a payment?
Licensed family child care home providers, with an active license, who have cared for at least one child receiving state-subsidized child care services for three months between September 2021 and February 2022, and license-exempt providers (i.e., family, friend, and neighbor providers), currently providing subsidized child care services, who have cared for at least one child receiving state-subsidized child care services in December 2021, January 2022 and February 2022 are eligible for monthly payments in FY 2022-23.
How do I know if I have cared for a child receiving state-subsidized child care services?
If you cared for a child receiving subsidies from one of the following programs administered by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) or the California Department of Education (CDE), you have cared for a child receiving state-subsidized child care:
- CalWORKs Stage 1 Child Care Program
- CalWORKs Stage 2 Child Care Program (C2AP)
- CalWORKs Stage 3 Child Care Program (C3AP)
- California Alternative Payment Program (CAPP)
- California Migrant Alternative Payment Program (CMAP)
- Migrant Child Care and Development Program (CMIG)
- General Child Care and Development Program (CCTR)
- Family Child Care Home Education Network (CFCC)
- The Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children (Bridge Program)
- California State Preschool Program (CSPP)
If you are not sure which services the children in your care are receiving, please ask the agency that issues your reimbursement.
Please note that federal programs not administered by the CDSS or CDE, such as Head Start, Migrant Seasonal Head Start, or military child care programs, do not provide eligibility for these payments.
If I am eligible, when will I receive a payment?
Monthly payments will commence in August 2022, with the first payments to providers who have completed the W-9 process being issued on August 31. This first payment will include both the July and August payment amounts.
How do I find out if I am eligible to receive a payment?
Eligible providers with email addresses will be sent an email with a personalized link with instructions about how to receive payment.
How much will I receive?
Monthly payments will be issued in the following amounts through December 2022:
- Small licensed family child care provider: $750
- Large licensed family child care provider: $900
- License-exempt child care provider: $125
Amounts for monthly payments for January through June 2023 will be determined at a later date.
Who is the Foundation for California Community Colleges and why am I receiving the payment from them?
The Foundation for California Community Colleges is the official nonprofit auxiliary partner to the California Community Colleges. The organization’s work benefits colleges, students, and communities, and aims to promote more equitable outcomes for all Californians. Recognizing the Foundation’s statewide reach, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has contracted with them to issue and distribute the supplemental rate payments.
Is the payment taxable?
If the total amount of payments you received during the tax year exceeds $600, it is taxable. Child care providers eligible for payment will be directed to a portal to complete tax information to receive the payment.
I have not received notification about the payment but believe I am eligible. Who can look into this for me?
If you believe you are eligible for the monthly payment based on the eligibility description, but did not receive the email with a personalized link, you may not be eligible, or Foundation CCC may not have a valid email address on file.
Please contact the Foundation to inquire about your eligibility.
I received the email with a personalized link stating that I am eligible, but I need assistance with the form or need to request a change to my name.
Please call the Child Care Providers United Supplemental Pay Helpline at (916) 980-8998. Representatives are available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. PST. Please note that the helpline is experiencing higher than average wait times.
I’m an eligible provider and submitted W-9 information to Foundation CCC last year. Do I need to submit my W-9 information again?
All providers eligible for the Supplemental Rate Payments must submit their W-9 information by completing the form through the unique link sent. If you completed a W-9 form for the one-time supplemental rate payment issued in Spring/Summer 2022, you do not need to complete a new form to receive the monthly payments. If you completed a W-9 form for stipends, you will need to complete a new one to receive the monthly supplemental rate payments.
By completing the form through the unique link sent via email, your W-9 will be auto-generated for you.
Child care costs and the impacts on families
While most are at loss for how to fix the problem, many parents agree child care costs play a major role in their lives and impact big family decisions.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Child care, every parent needs it at one point or another but not every parent can afford it. During the pandemic, many parents who still had to work had to seek out help filling up child care facilities all over.
“For me to work, I have to have the childcare and it's so expensive,” said Vanessa Bonanno, a mother of four who has three children who require daily child care.
Bonanno has struggled for the last three years, a large part due to the cost of child care. In the last three years, she’s struggled with homelessness as a result of not being able to find a job. Over the years, she’s been able to stay with family which has helped with housing and child care at times.
But now most of her family members have left, and the single mother has to find a more permanent solution.
Even in times when she was able to find a job and find possible child care, she faced a whole new set of issues.
“I would have to turn down a job in order to pay for child care, and I can’t pay for childcare unless I have a job,” Bonanno said.
Bonanno has since found a job, but she says her current job has her working outside the hours of her child care arrangement. While she’s applied for assistance through Community Connections, they’re only willing to pay for the regularly scheduled hours — meaning anytime her children remain in care, she has to pay out of pocket.
"I had to really just, apply for the government assistance. And I never wanted to do that just because it's a lot that they require, so with the Community Connections, I just had to wait and wait," Bonanno said.
On Friday, Congressional Democrats, who have been pushing for a social policy bill that would have capped families’ child care expenses at 7 percent of their income, agreed to put their $1.
85 trillion social policy, climate, and tax package on hold. While the bill is on hold, the Biden Administration has introduced a Build Back Better Framework Plan.
The plan claims it will:
- Save most American families more than half of their spending on child care, deliver two years of free preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old in America.
- Give more than 35 million families a major tax cut by extending the expanded child tax credit.
“One income alone goes completely to child care costs,” said Laura Torres, a mother of four with three children in child care.
For Laura Torres, she says she and her husband have relied on the additional child tax credit to help them pay for child care. The couple has four children, three of whom are in a private child care facility. Torres estimated between her husband and her their net income was around $100,000 a year.
With both of them working full-time and Torres also being a full-time law student, she said circumstances beyond their control have made it difficult to pay for child care.
“We didn’t expect to have three toddlers at one time, but we had a set of twins so that was unexpected,” Torres said. “As a full-time student and employee, we would love for the kids to be there five days a week but we just can’t afford it.”
While most are at loss for how to fix the problem, many parents agree child care costs play a major role in their lives and impact big family decisions.
Torres said even though they’re able to pay for child care, she and her husband have decided to forgo getting another car and the family and child care costs will likely impact future living and career decisions.
“We have identified, especially here in California, for a Head Start grant, it’s challenging," said CAPK Head Start Assistant Program Director Jerry Meade. "As we're looking at $15 an hour as a minimum wage coming towards us a lot of our families are going to be considered over income."
Head Start is a federally funded early education and development program for low-income families.
The program is run through Community Action Partnership of Kern and Meade says for the first time in a while they have an unprecedented amount of openings for not only low-income families but moderate-income couples as well.
“We link families that are over income to other sources of subsidies that may be available through the Superintendent of Schools Office and other opportunities for subsidized child care."
Like many centers that offer child care and development services, one of the struggles Head Start has faced is the difficulty to staff their facilities.
"To find a BA degree, early childhood education teacher in our communities today is very difficult," Meade said.
Because Head Start is federally funded, their pay rate is compared to similar school educator wages, but if CAPK can’t make the case for a certain wage, it can be difficult to remain competitive.
Like other child care facilities, Head Start looks to employ those who have the education and desire to work in child development — which puts them in competition with higher-paying school districts and educational facilities.
“Changes we have is the differences between an Early Head Start teacher, a Head Start teacher, an early childhood education, versus a liberal studies degree for working on a credential to become an elementary school teacher," Meade said.
Still, Meade says in many of their facilities they have openings for low to moderate-income families and he encourages anybody to apply — whether or not they believe they meet the eligibility requirements.
Changes in regulations to support that are constantly being worked on to support that,” Meade said. “But I do see that it is going to continue to be a challenge for families to find not only adequate but fully skilled early educators.”
Monthly payment in connection with the birth (adoption) of the first child
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