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GAO-21-245R 1 (2021-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecma0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 February 18, 2021 The Honorable Patty Murray Chair The Honorable Richard Burr Ranking Member Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate The Honorable Bobby Scott Chairman The Honorable Virginia Foxx Republican Leader Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives Child Care: Subsidy Eligibility and Receipt, and Wait Lists This letter formally transmits the attached briefing in response to GAO's mandate included in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) of 2014 (see enclosure 1). The CCDBG Act of 2014 included a provision for GAO to review every 2 years the extent of participation in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program across states.1 This program is one of the primary sources of federal funding for assisting low-income families with child care while they are working, looking for jobs, or participating in education and training activities. On November 18, 2020, we provided the briefing to staff of your committees to satisfy the mandate. Our briefing described 1) what is known about the number of children eligible for federal child care subsidies and the extent to which they receive them, including by state; 2) what is known about the age and family income of children eligible for federal child care subsidies compared to children who receive them; and 3) what is known about how states manage their waiting lists. To answer these questions, we summarized the most recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) analysis of overall CCDF program eligibility and subsidy receipt data; calculated state level eligibility and receipt by using 1) state-level data on federal and state CCDF eligibility from the HHS analysis and 2) state-level data on CCDF receipt from the Office of Child Care; summarized information from a previous GAO report about state child care administrators' approaches and challenges to managing subsidy wait lists; and discussed what, if any, impact the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was having on eligibility and receipt with some members of the National Association of State Child Care Administrators (NASCCA). The slides in our enclosure have been updated since we briefed your staff in November 2020. Specifically, the attached slides contain updated child care eligibility and receipt data for fiscal 1 Pub. L. No. 113-186, § 12, 128 Stat. 1971, 2001. GAO-21-245R Child Care Page 1

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