Child Care Subsidies – New Mexico

State officials cut $13.5M from Child Care Assistance Service program, By Elizabeth Piazza, September 21, 2010, Farmington Daily Times: “Hundreds of families in San Juan County could find themselves without child care after state officials cut $13.5 million from the Child Care Assistance Service program. Officials from the New Mexico Human Services Department announced that beginning Nov. 1, families who fall above the federal poverty level, which is based on number of people living in a household and income level, will no longer be eligible for state assistance to pay for child care, said Katherine Slater-Huff, department spokeswoman. ‘We are looking at and trying to balance the needs of all participants who receive services from the many TANF-funded programs,’ Slater-Huff said of the department’s decision to cut child care funding. The child care assistance service program is funded by TANF, an acronym for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The child care cuts come as a result of a $28 million shortfall for the TANF program, Slater-Huff said…”