Families Will Lose Child Care Assistance under Ways and Means Committee Welfare Reauthorization Bill


 

Publication Date: October 2005

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Danielle Ewen

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

On October 26, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a budget reconciliation bill that includes provisions to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Even as the bill increases families’ work requirements—and the need for child care—it provides only $500 million in new child care funding over five years, despite Congressional Budget Office estimates that keeping pace with inflation will cost $4.8 billion over five years. If enacted, this bill would force states to cut child care assistance for low-income working families over the coming years.