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Eligibility Rules

This section of the website will give you information on financial eligibility levels for child care subsidies and other eligibility rules for people applying for child care subsidies.

ARTICLES

Help Low Wage Parents Keep their Jobs!
For many families the cost of child care is almost double what a family of three with two children pays for rent. Read More

Highlights from the 2011 Legislative Session
After all the emails, strategy sessions, meetings, Facebook updates and trips to Albany, the 2011 Legislative session closed with a huge amount of excitement about New York’s new civil rights law that will bring marriage equality to same sex couples. Read More

Child Care Update
This year, the New York State budget allocated $736,036,409 to local social services districts for the provision of child care assistance for the period of April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010. Read More


Eligibility Rules: Article


IN THE NEWS

Innovative Legislation to Preserve Child Care Subsidies
Advocates are urging state lawmakers to support an innovative legislative proposal that would preserve child care subsidies for low-income working families, despite a $55 million cut to funding in this year’s budget. Read More


Eligibility Rules: In the News


POLICY ADVOCACY

Empire Justice Tesimony: Challenges Facing the Child Care Community
This testimony focuses on the desperate need for resources to provide child care subsidies and an innovative way to prioritize limited child care dollars to support parents who are working, policy disparities between districts and the importance of ensuring that co-payments for child care subsidies are affordable for parents. Read More

Highlights from the 2011 Legislative Session
After all the emails, strategy sessions, meetings, Facebook updates and trips to Albany, the 2011 Legislative session closed with a huge amount of excitement about New York’s new civil rights law. Read More


Eligibility Rules: Policy Advocacy


PUBLICATIONS

Immigrant Eligibility Handbook
The rules governing the eligibility of individuals who are not citizens of the United States for federal or state public benefits, including medical assistance, are complicated. They are also subject to change. This manual addresses the immigrant eligibility rules of the various health care programs in New York as they existed in December of 2008. Read More

 


NEWSLETTERS

Legal Services Journal - Summer 2009 Issue
The Summer 2009 issue of the Legal Services Journal has a wide range of articles. With a highlight on Empire Justice Center's legislative outcomes and articles on Child Care, Civil Rights, Community Development, Consumer, Disability Benefits, Domestic Violence, Employment, Health, Housing, Immigrant Rights, Language Access and Public Benefits. Read More



TRAINING AND EVENTS

Child Care and Child Support
This course covers the fundamentals of the child support requirements for applicants and recipients of child care assistance. Discussions include the active pursuit of child support; good cause exception and determinations; failure to cooperate by applicant or recipient; the child support order; treatment of child support as income; what happens if the non-custodial parent stops paying support; practical difficulties and legal issues that may be raised by petitioners and respondent. Read More