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Article
9
Child Care Subsidy
The parties
agree that the Department will maintain a Child Care Subsidy
Program available to bargaining unit employees as follows:
a.
The Department of Labor Child Care Subsidy Program, in accordance
with Public Law 107-67, is intended to foster a quality
work place for employees through the use of licensed child
care by subsidizing costs for lower family income employees
while at the same time improving recruitment efforts, improving
retention, reducing absenteeism, and improving morale. The
Program will provide assistance to lower income working
families in their efforts to obtain quality, licensed day
care for dependent children through age 13 and disabled
children through age 18. Qualified participants must be
utilizing licensed child care, meet income level definitions,
and maintain a full-time or part-time permanent position
status.
b. This agreement is made pursuant to the government-wide
regulations of the Office of Personnel Management. Appropriated
funds, otherwise available for salaries, will be utilized
to fund the program.
The
subsidy payment plan is as follows:
| Total |
Percentage
of |
Monthly |
| Family |
Actual
Child |
Not
to |
| Income |
Care
Costs |
Exceed |
| <$26,929 |
70% |
$500 |
| $26,929-$30,580 |
60% |
$400 |
| $30,581-$39,999 |
50% |
$375 |
| $40,000-$49,999 |
40% |
$350 |
| $50,000-$59,999 |
30% |
$250 |
c.
Any annual subsidy received in excess of $5,000 ($2,500
in the case of a separate return by a married individual)
must be included as part of gross income for tax purposes,
in accordance with 26 USC 129.
d. The Department may reduce or suspend the child care subsidy
for all bargaining unit employees when it deems funding
to be insufficient.
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