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 Ghelfi, and William Hamilton
E-FAN No. (02-005) 69 pp,
April 2002
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.
Keywords: 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
In this report ... Chapters are
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
- Abstract, Contents, Executive Summary, 36 kb
- Introduction, 26 kb
- Impact of Tiering on Income Targeting of CACFP
Participation and Benefits, 30 kb
- Tiering’s Targeting Efficiency, 35 kb
- Characteristics of Children Served by CACFP Family
Child Care Homes, 35 kb
- Households’ CACFP Child Care Experience, 37 kb
- Conclusion, 18 kb
- References, 12 kb
- Appendix A, 48 kb
- Appendix B, 36 kb
For more information on reimbursement tiering in the CACFP, see the following reports:
- Reimbursement Tiering in the CACFP: Summary Report to Congress on the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study
- Family Child Care Home Participation in the CACFP—Effects of Reimbursement Tiering
- Sponsoring Organizations in the CACFP—Administrative Effects of Reimbursement Tiering
- Family Child Care Providers in the CACFP—Operational Effects of Reimbursement Tiering
- Households with Children in CACFP Child Care Homes—Effects of Meal Reimbursement Tiering
- Meals Offered by Tier 2 CACFP Family Child Care Providers—Effects of Lower Meal Reimbursements
Updated date: April 1, 2002
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