Households with Children in CACFP Child Care Homes - Effects of Meal Reimbursement Tiering: A Report to Congress on the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study

Mary Kay Crepinsek , Linda M. Ghelfi , and William Hamilton

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: meal reimbursement tiering;    Child and Adult Care Food Program;    CACFP;    child care;    childcare;    family child care providers;    child nutrition programs;    welfare reform;    Food and Nutrition Service;    FNS;   

RP-ID  :  EFAN-02-005

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

Within the family child care home portion of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), low-income children increased from 21 to 39 percent of all participating children between 1995 and 1999. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996 mandated a tiered reimbursement structure for CACFP child care homes--designed to target benefits more narrowly to low-income children--and called for a study of its effects on program participants and on meals offered to children. The study finds that the proportion of dollars allocated to low-income children's meals more than doubled, from 21 percent to 45 percent.