Beginning July 1, it will be a little harder for about 90,000 children and their families across the state to afford child care.
A $50 million temporary child care copayment waiver program that began last year is set to expire.
The waiver of publicly funded child care copayments is a temporary program that expires on July 1, 2023. To date we’ve been able to save families more than $50 million in copayments. However, there is no plan to add additional dollars. The proposed fiscal year 24-25 budget would expand eligibility for publicly funded child care from 142% to 160% of the federal poverty level, opening the program to an estimated 15,000 additional children.
"It opens the pot to more people, but it doesn’t address the copays," he said."What we’re worried say you’re at the 157th percentile, just below what [the limit is] going to be; the copay is going to be astronomical and huge to what it's been compared to in the past." With no future relief in sight, Johnson already started budgeting for what’s next, shuffling schedules and cutting care to make it work.
“Waiving copays is a $50 million shot in the arm to these families who now have a bit more in their weekly budgets," Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Matt Damschroder said in May 2022.
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