Family Fees. Subject to federal approval and CRRSA Act usage limitations, family fee requirements will be waived for all families receiving subsidized child care services from child care providers operating programs pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 8220), Article 6 (commencing with Section 8230), Article 8 (commencing with Section 8240), Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 8245), Article 9 (commencing with Section 8250), Article 15.5 (commencing with Section 8350) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, or Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11461.6) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code as these sections read on February 3, 2021, for the period of July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022. This provision is subject to approval by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Contractors will reimburse licensed family child care homes and license- exempt child care providers for the full amount of the certificate or voucher without deducting family fees.
Family Fees. AB 1542 placed all child care programs requirements in the Education Code. Consequently, Education Code requirements apply to all stages of child care. This includes family fee provisions (EC Section 8263[f]). Effective January 1, 1998, the family fee schedule issued by CDE effective October 1, 1997 will be used for all families receiving subsidized child care (Attachment 4, Management Bulletin Number 97-12mb dated July 1997). This bulletin is attached to the ACL to allow counties to determine whether CalWORKs participants will have to pay a fee. Counties are not required to use this bulletin to determine eligibility for CalWORKs child care. Most CalWORKs child care families will not pay fees because their monthly income is below 50 percent of the state median income (SMI). However, previous TCC families may have a fee, depending on their income level.
