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Income Criteria and Regional Reimbursement Rates

Income criteria

Child care subsidies are made available to families who are receiving temporary cash
assistance (TCA), or have applied for TCA, or who are not receiving temporary
cash assistance but have an income that is within established limits.

To ensure that families continue to have access to the widest range of providers,
on January 1, 2002, rates paid to regulated child care providers were increased
to the 75th percentile of January 2001 market rates. This represents, on average,
a 5 percent rate increase statewide. The maximum monthly rates are as follows:

 

Regional Reimbursement Rates

 

Regional Monthly Reimbursement Rates

                   Family Child Care        Child Care Center

 

Regular

Infant

 

Regular

Infant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Region U

$368

$433

 

$408

$650

Region V

$325

$368

 

$358

$585

Region W

$445

$563

 

$495

$779

Region X

$596

$714

 

$659

$1009

Region Y

$473

$563

 

$532

$790

Region Z

$346

$368

 

$336

$368

Region BC

$429

$541

 

$433

$771

 

 

Purchase of Care Regional Configuration for Payment Rates

Region U- Cecil, Queen Anne’s, St. Mary’s, Talbot and Washington counties; Region V- Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Somerset and Wicomico counties; Region W- Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and Prince George’s counties; Region X- Howard and Montgomery counties; Region Y- Baltimore, Frederick and Harford counties; Region Z- Allegany, Garrett and Worcester counties; Region BC- Baltimore City

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