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Office of Child Care

An Office of the Administration for Children & Families

Does reauthorization change the amount of mandatory or matching funds?

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Publication Date: March 24, 2015

No, the amounts of mandatory and matching funds appropriated for CCDF are governed by Section 418 of the Social Security Act (as opposed to the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act) and were not changed by reauthorization. For FY 2015, the amount allocated for CCDF mandatory and matching funds is $2.917 billion, which is level funding from the prior year. Note that, while the funding mechanism for mandatory and matching funds is separate from discretionary CCDF funding, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 (Pub.L. 104-193) made such funding subject to the requirements of the CCDBG Act, as amended. HHS subsequently designated the combined funding streams as the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program.

(Reference: 42 U.S.C. § 618)