Child Care Availability and Affordability Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 22
- Latest action
- Mar 4, 2025
What it does
The Child Care Availability and Affordability Act would expand tax benefits for child care by increasing the employer-provided child care credit from 25% to 50% of qualified expenditures (with a higher cap of $500,000, or $600,000 for small businesses) and raising the dependent care assistance exclusion from $5,000 to $7,500. It would also create a new refundable household and dependent care credit (Section 36C) allowing up to 50% of employment-related expenses for child or dependent care, subject to income-based phaseouts and dollar limits of $5,000 for one qualifying individual or $8,000 for two or more. The bill affects employers offering child care benefits, employees using dependent…
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