MN Providers: Is Govt. Assistance Really That Bad???

[Blackcat31]

Got a letter in the mail today regarding changes to the MN CCAP program. The changes are as follows:
March 5, 2012 - CCAP will not make payments to someone who lives in the same home as the child unless approved by CCAP.

April 16, 2012 - Payments for one day cannot be more than the daily rate and payments for one week cannot be more than weekly rate. (Basically they will only allow 10hrs/day or 50hrs/week and parents will have to cover the difference)

September 3, 2012 - Non-standard hour payments will end. Payments for activity fees end.

January 1, 2013 - CCAP will not make absent day payments to legal nonlicensed family child care providers. CCAP will only pay for 10 absent days a year per child at a licensed provider or a licensed exempt center.

January 1, 2013 - CCAP will not make payments to a child care center if more than half the children at the center are children of the center's workers or live with center workers.

I got this info in an e-mail a few months ago and that one threw me for a loop.....I am glad they are changing it.....I see no reason why they did that in the first place? :confused:

Also in reference to the last one, my e-mail also says that it will limit payments to a center where either of the child's parents may be employed or a person who resides with the child who is employed at the center.