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DCYF preview: 2025 market‑rate and cost‑of‑quality survey to inform subsidy rates; deployment set for Oct.–Dec. 2025
Summary
DCYF and its vendor described the 2025 market‑rate and cost‑of‑quality survey that will underpin future subsidy base rates, outlined federal requirements, the state timetable set by statute and the plan to deploy the survey Oct. 1–Dec. 2025 with a June 1, 2026 legislative report deadline.
Matt Judge, federal initiatives and collaboration administrator for DCYF, told ELAC on Aug. 5 that the department is preparing a combined market‑rate and cost‑of‑quality survey to inform Working Connections child‑care subsidy base rates and to create a dataset for future policy choices.
“We are going to set subsidy base rates based on the data that we collect in this survey,” Judge said, explaining that the legislature requires market‑based rates while the state has federal permission to move toward a cost‑of‑quality methodology.
Why it matters: The market‑rate survey determines the base subsidy rates paid to providers by region, provider type and child age. DCYF said the 2025 survey will also collect the cost inputs needed to calculate a cost‑of‑quality rate should Washington choose to adopt that…
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