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Staff recommend 5.5% reimbursement increase for infant and toddler child-care slots
Summary
Committee staff presented a recommendation to raise reimbursement rates for infants and toddlers by 5.5%—an estimated $5.87 million—based on a recent cost-of-care study; the estimate had not been verified by the Joint Fiscal Office and committee members asked for funding-source and caseload detail.
Committee staff told the Human Services budget workgroup that First Children’s Finance, the firm that performed a recent cost-of-care study, indicated a 5.5% increase to the reimbursement rate for infants and toddlers would align payments with current costs.
The recommendation covers only infants and toddlers and, by the committee’s calculation, would cost about $5,872,612; staff said that figure had not yet been…
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