SUNY Child Care Subsidy Guidelines for Eligibility

The SUNY child care subsidy program is available for SUNY student parents who are both programmatically eligible and financially eligible. The goal of theis program is to provide support to low income student parents so that they can obtain a college degree and secure employment that will enable them to support themselves and their children. The student parent must demonstrate his or her ability to successfully complete the course of study and must maintain satisfactory progress

Program Eligibility

• students must be attending classes during the hours when the child care center is in operation. Online classes and evening classes are not eligible.
• If another custodial parent is available while the other parent is attending classes, subsidies cannot be utilized.
• If a parent is absent in the household, the parent seeking subsidies must demonstrate that he/she has court ordered child support in place; he/she is actively pursuing a court order for child support, or he/she has good cause not to actively pursue child support.
• Hours of care should be directly related to the hours the parent is involved in classes or activities that are required to a completion of a degree. One exception is if a student’s combined hours of attending classes and working equal 30 hours or more as long as the hours of work and classes are during the hours when the center is in operation.

Financial Eligibility

• The gross family income must be at or below 200% of the State Income Standards see income chart below.
• Family gross income is based on the average monthy income for a period of but not less than one month. Current pay stubs must be submitted in order to determine financial eligibility. Self employed parents may use the most recent NYS Income Tax Return.