Number: RL31605
Title: Child Care: State Programs Under the Child Care and Development Fund
Authors: Melinda Gish and Shannon Harper, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193, PRWORA) restructured the major federal-state child care programs. It repealed three welfare-related child care programs and initiated a new set of federal rules referred to as the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). The CCDF combines funds provided under Section 418 of the Social Security Act established by PRWORA with funds provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). Both streams of funding are authorized through FY2002. Funds are distributed as grants to states for their use in subsidizing child care services to low-income families with children.
Pages: 51
Date: Updated October 8, 2002