Several programs help parents moving off welfare pay for child care.
A parent can stay with the same provider as she passes through different stages in moving from welfare to work. Child care assistance is sometimes complicated because different offices pay for the child care at different times, depending on what stage a parent is at in her efforts to move from welfare to work. The chart on the other side will tell you when the CAO pays and when the LMA pays. It also explains what the family needs to do to apply and to continue to receive help paying for child care. The CAO does not have a uniform approach to paying for child care.