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Iowa updates child care assistance rules; department and lawmakers spar over allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to supervise certain children
Summary
The Department of Health and Human Services presented adopted rules to raise family-income eligibility and change minimum participation hours for child care assistance; separate rulemaking would allow limited unsupervised care by 16- and 17-year-old staff for school-age and certain 2-5-year-old situations, prompting concern from lawmakers.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services told the committee it adopted administrative changes to child care assistance and proposed related changes to child-care staffing rules that drew pushback from legislators.
Joe Campos, compliance officer with the Department of Health and Human Services, said ARC 8741C and related Chapter 170 revisions implement legislative changes from 2023 and 2024. He said the rulemaking "readjust[ed] the family income limit and the family fee chart based on annual FPL changes." The adopted rule updates the child care assistance family-income limit from 45% to 60% of the federal poverty level and raises the minimum hours-of-participation requirement from 28 to 32 hours for families…
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