FY 2020 CCDF Data Tables (Preliminary)

Publication Date: May 23, 2022
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The Impact of COVID-19 Health Crisis are Reflected in the FY2020 CCDF Data

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting state policy changes—which occurred part way through FY 2020-- are reflected in the FY 2020 CCDF administrative data.  In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, state and territory lead agencies implemented policies to assist families and providers, including paying providers based on enrollment, waiving or reducing parent copays, serving families and children of essential workers, and increasing payments to providers.

To support families, children and providers during the COVID-19 health crisis, Congress in FY2020 appropriated $3.5 billion in supplemental CCDF Discretionary funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.  While this funding largely followed CCDF rules, it provided some additional flexibilities, such as allowing CCDF lead agencies to fund child care services for children of essential workers without regard to the CCDF income eligibility requirements.  Some states began using a portion of these supplemental funds in FY 2020.

These developments are reflected in the preliminary FY 2020 data, as compared to FY 2019 data, as follows:

  1. a modest increase in the average monthly number of children served,
  2. a decrease in the family copay, with a higher percentage of families having no copay (zero copay),
  3. an increase in the average monthly subsidy amount to providers,
  4. a slight increase in the number of school-age children served.

More Information

  1. A modest increase was observed in the average monthly number of children served as compared to FY2019. This increase contrasts with recent years when the caseload either declined or was stagnant. Likely reasons for the increase include:
    1. For the first 6 months of FY 2020 (prior to the most impactful months of the pandemic), states were serving a higher average monthly number of families and children because lead agencies were expending the additional $2.1B CCDF discretionary funding they received annually beginning in FY 2018, as well as other recent CCDF funding increases. During the second half of FY 2020, fourteen states (DE, ID, IL, IA, KS, ME, MN, NV, ND, OK, PA, TX, VA, and WY) served families, children and providers with CARES Act funding, and included these populations in their ACF-800 and ACF-801 data.
    2. In accordance with section 658E(c)(2)(S)(ii) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act, lead agencies could delink provider payments from child absences. So, numerous lead agencies were paying providers based on enrollment (not attendance) to maintain the supply of providers during the pandemic.
    3. States provided child cares services to a slightly higher number of school age children due to school closings because of the COVID-19 health crisis.
    4. The CARES Act funding allowed lead agencies to not only provide much needed support to CCDF eligible families, children, and providers, but to also serve families and children of essential workers regardless of income. These families and children were not previously eligible to receive services under the CCDF program.

    For these reasons, the lead agencies reported serving on average more families and children in FY 2020 as compared to FY 2019.

  2. A decrease was observed in the average monthly family copay amount, as some lead agencies used CCDF funds during the COVID-19 health crisis to reduce the cost burden on families by waiving the requirement for a family copay or reducing the copay amount starting in March 2020.
  3. An increase was observed in the average monthly subsidy amount to provider as compared to FY 2019 driven by the following:
    1. Beginning prior to the COVID-19 health crisis, lead agencies increased provider payment rates to ensure that families eligible for CCDF subsidies had equal access to providers in their communities as private pay families.
    2. Lead agencies used CCDF funds during the COVID-19 health crisis to pay providers based on enrollment (not attendance), and to pay for school age children who were in care more hours due to school closings. So, there is a correlation between increased payments and increased hours of care.  (
  4. A slight increase was observed in the average monthly number of school-age children served in FY 2020 as compared in FY 2019 due to school closings. A higher percentage of families required child care for their school-age children due to these COVID-19 related closings.

Tables

Table 1:  Average Monthly Adjusted Number of Families and Children Served
Table 2 : Percent of Children Served by Payment Method
Table 3: Average Monthly Percentages of Children Served by Types of Care
Table 4: Average Monthly Percentages of Children Served in Regulated Settings vs. Settings Legally Operating Without Regulation
Table 5: Children in Settings Legally Operating Without Regulation, Average Monthly Percent Served by Relatives vs. Non-Relatives
Table 6: Average Monthly Percentages of Children Served in All Types of Care
Table 7: Number of Child Care Providers Receiving CCDF Funds
Table 8: Consumer Education Strategies Summary
Table 9: Average Monthly Percentages of Children In Care By Age Group
Table 10: Reasons for Receiving Care, Average Monthly Percentage of Families
Table 11: Average Monthly Percentages of Children by Racial Group
Table 12: Average Monthly Percentages of Children by Latino Ethnicity
Table 12a: Average Monthly Percent of Children In Care By Race and Ethnicity
Table 13: Average Monthly Percentages of Children in Child Care by Age Category and Care Type
Table 14: Average Monthly Hours for Children In Care By Age Group and Care Type
Table 15: Average Monthly Subsidy Paid to Provider by Age Group and Care Type
Table 16: Average Monthly Percent of Families Reporting Income from TANF
Table 17: Average Monthly Mean Family Co-payment as a Percent of Family Income
Table 18: Average Monthly Percentages of Head of Family Status (NEW)
Table 19: Average Monthly Percentages of Families by Homeless Status (NEW)
Table 20: Average Monthly Percentages of Primary Language Spoken at Home (NEW)
Table 21: Average Monthly Percentages of Children With a Disability (NEW)

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