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Committee considers reforms to New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship program to reduce paperwork and speed payments
Summary
Senate Bill 243 would let eligible families receive up to 60 days of scholarship funding while an application is pending, switch to prospective payments for providers and remove mandatory per-day arrival/departure reporting; providers, early-childhood advocates and DHHS supported changes but DHHS sought a modest appropriation for IT and a pilot.
Senate Bill 243, a package of technical changes to the New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship program, moved through a public hearing before the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee with broad support from providers, operators and legislative sponsors.
The bill’s aims are pragmatic: (1) allow up to 60 days of scholarship coverage while an application is pending (presumptive eligibility), (2) establish prospective payments for providers (so providers can receive scholarship funds at the start of a billing period rather…
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