MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - More than 3,100 child care providers across the state will receive a total of $8.7 million through the first payment of the Child Care Bridge Payments Program. Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families ...

A massive backlog of payments to Missouri child care providers will continue beyond October despite a previous pledge that the state will be caught up by the end of this month. Pam Thomas, assistant commissioner for Missouri’s Office of Childhood, told ...

This story was originally published by The 19th on April 2, 2024. For more than a decade, Erin Farias has watched the low-income families who send children to the day cares she runs navigate America’s broken child care system. Many of those parents had ...

The federal government estimated that 11% of all payments likely had some flaw, potentially impacting $231.4 million in child care claims across more than 1,150 providers.

Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger apologizes to child care providers for months-delayed payments during widespread problems with the child care subsidy program. Missouri child care providers began complaining that they were missing months of ...