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EEC warns of possible June payment delay, updates scholarship timing and names new staff
Summary
Commissioner Kershaw told the May EEC board the agency is serving the largest caseload in its history and warned that, without timely supplemental appropriations, June childcare provider payments could be delayed.
Department of Early Education and Care Commissioner Kershaw used the May board meeting to report operational items: increased caseload, a potential June payment timing risk, delays in scholarship application posting, and several personnel hires.
Caseload and potential payment timing risks "We are serving more children than we ever have in our childcare financial assistance program," Commissioner Kershaw said. The agency has been monitoring expenditures and the governor filed a fair-share supplemental budget intended to address FY25 surpluses. The commissioner said the…
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