{"id":30447,"date":"2021-05-19T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:39:19","slug":"expanded-child-care-assistance-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30447","title":{"rendered":"Expanded child care assistance approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More Nebraskans are eligible for subsidized child care assistance under a bill passed May 19.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28750\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=28750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Wendy DeBoer. District 10. December 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1607440189&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2020, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;140&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenDeBoer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Wendy DeBoer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Wendy DeBoer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28750\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Wendy DeBoer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Wendy DeBoer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB485, introduced by Bennington Sen. Wendy DeBoer, increases the income eligibility limit of the Child Care Subsidy program from 130 percent of the federal poverty level to 185 percent. The bill also increases transitional child care income eligibility from 185 percent of FPL to 200 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Expanded eligibility will end Sept. 30, 2023, and the bill\u2019s cost will be paid through existing federal block grant funds.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB485 31-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Nebraskans are eligible for subsidized child care assistance under a bill passed May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-wendy-deboer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30452,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions\/30452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}