Child care boost: Government will boost subsidy by $2200 a year for ‘average families’
The subsidy will take the financial sting out of child care costs, according to Education Minister Alan Tudge. Photo: Getty
The Morrison government has brought forward an increase in the child care subsidy that was due to start in July next year to March.
Education Minister Alan Tudge said about 250,000 families will benefit from the increased subsidy by more than $2200 per year on average.
“So that is great for families,” Mr Tudge told reporters in Canberra on Sunday.
“It is also really going to help the economy as well, by reducing some of those workforce disincentives.”
He said the government has been able to work across departments and service providers to make necessary technical changes sooner than was planned.
A family earning $110,000 a year with two children in care, four days a week, will be better off by about $100 each week.
The $10,655 annual subsidy cap will also be scrapped on December 10, 2021 and applied retrospectively for the whole 2021/22 financial year.
“From now, families can have that confidence that this financial year they will not hit that cap and they are not ever going to hit that again,” he said.
“So they don’t have to ration any child care, which I know that some parents do.”
-AAP
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