YMCA WA has been made aware that from 2 July 2018 ‘hour entitlements’ for families receiving childcare subsidy and additional childcare subsidy will be used over a two-week period and accrued fortnightly. These fortnightly hours will be 24 hours, 36 hours, 72 hours or 100 hours per fortnight.
Currently, all Government subsidies for childcare benefit and childcare rebate accrue weekly. They are either 24 hours or 50 hours per week.
This means from 2 July 2018, parents will have their entire subsidy allocated to the first week of care and the left-over hours shall remain allocated for the second week. This will not be split in half evenly.
Example:
Sally has a four-day per week booking at a service that is open for 12 hours per day.
Sally’s parent is approved for 72 hours of the new Child Care Subsidy (CCS) per fortnight
Week one: Four days (48 hours) – covered by CCS
Week two: Two days (the remaining 24 hours) covered by CCS. The third and fourth day will be paid at the full rate.
This means the ‘gap’ (parent’s out of pocket expense) will be higher in week 2
