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The provincial minister of state for child care, has issued a letter to all child care providers in the province, giving child care providers and parents an assurance that the current child care subsidy will continue into the future.
The correspondence from Linda Reid reassures parents that the provincial government will be maintaining the current Child Care Subsidy Program for parents to protect the province's most vulnerable families.
As a result, those who receive a subsidy will continue to receive the subsidy, and the increased subsidy rate and income threshold will remain in place.
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Furthermore, the federal $100-a-month Universal Child Care Benefit that parents are now receiving will not be considered as income when determining eligibility for the child care subsidy.
The cancellation of the federal early learning and child care agreement represents a loss of $455 million in federal funding.
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- reprinted from the Cariboo Press