“If you’re a part time worker and you get an extra shift, you can’t take it because there’s no way your provider is going to hold a day for you on the possibility you might make it, knowing that if you don’t, they won’t get compensated.”
The third would allow for parents to be presumed eligible for child care assistance while their application is underway if they check certain basic boxes. Lawmakers stress that getting approved is a lengthy process that often coincides with the stress of beginning a new position.
“To have to figure out every day what to do with your child as you start a new job or whatever it may be, this is just a huge burden,” Clark said.
“Advocates push Hochul to sign child care bills geared toward modernizing assistance process,” October 7, 2024, via Spectrum Local News