Toronto parents could see daycare fee reduction in the fall, city says – Toronto
The Metropolis of Toronto anticipates mother and father may start to see reductions of their child-care funds within the fall.
In March, Premier Doug Ford struck a cope with the federal authorities to signal on to the Canada-Extensive Early Studying and Youngster Care Plan (CWELCC), which can deliver $10 a day daycare to Ontario.
The deal was anticipated to deliver a 25 per cent discount in daycare prices on Might 1 however mother and father proceed to attend.
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Nonetheless, in an electronic mail to International Information, Shanley McNamee, Common Supervisor of Metropolis of Toronto’s Youngsters’s Companies, mentioned town started accepting on-line purposes on June 23.
As soon as the applying is acquired, town mentioned Youngsters’s Companies will course of it and make funds to the kid care program.
“Youngster care packages should then cut back their charges inside 30 days of enrolling in CWELCC and have 60 days to offer the retroactive charge discount to oldsters,” the e-mail learn.
McNamee mentioned town anticipates these funds will begin to circulate to baby care packages within the fall, who will “then present the reductions to oldsters.”
— With recordsdata from International Information’ Kevin Neilson
