Parents to Receive Support Payments by End of October
Prince George, B.C. – It won’t be until the end of October that parents can expect to receive their daycare support payments from the provincial government.
The $40 a day subsidy covers 13 missed school days between September 2 to September 18 for a total of $520 for each eligible child (public school students 12 years old and younger).
According to the Ministry of Finance (as of 8:00 a.m. today), nearly 210,000 families had registered for temporary education support payments representing more than 92% of eligible students.
Originally the ministry said checks would be sent out a month after the strike ended but now say additional time will be required in order to confirm with school districts the enrollment of students attending kindergarten and students who are new to BC public schools.
If you haven’t registered for the payment you have until the end of January 2015 to do so.
The provincial government launched the program to provide support for parents during the strike.
The minimum cost of the program to taxpayers will be $109,200,000 assuming no one else registers and each family has just one eligible child.
The government says the program will be funded by labour disruption savings.
Comments
To everyone in BC that has a child enrolled in a BC Public School this year, from Kindergarten to age 12….
MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE FOR THIS MONEY!
DO NOT LET THE BC FIBERALS KEEP ANY OF THEIR “labour disruption savings.”
Then once you get the money give it to the kids to give to their teachers.
Why would I give it to the teachers? I support their cause but daycare is expensive.
All of you teacher supporters who complained about this program are saying “no” right?
interceptor: “All of you teacher supporters who complained about this program are saying “no” right?”
Don’t be crazy. They will of course donate the money to the teacher’s strike fund, or give it to the teachers directly, as NoWay suggested.
And you are going to give yours back to the liberals right johnny? Maybe they could use it to start to cleanup Quesnel lake.
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 @ 3:09 PM by NoWay
Then once you get the money give it to the kids to give to their teachers.
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Too funny. As if we haven’t given the teachers enough already.
I believe that the teachers got 7.25% over six years.
My concern is more about the quality of our education system.
http://www.columbiainstitute.ca/sites/default/files/resources/WhenMoreisLess.pdf
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 @ 3:14 PM by mythoughts
Why would I give it to the teachers? I support their cause but daycare is expensive.
The tax money is supposed to go to education not daycare! If you find daycare too expensive stay at home and raise your own brats.
November Vegas trip now paid for…Thanks teachers you are the best
NoWay: “If you find daycare too expensive stay at home and raise your own brats.”
Is this a typical teacher supporter’s view of kids? Wow.
Probably a few more interesting things will come out of these payments.
1. The money will have to be paid to a Bone Fide Licensed Day Care Centre, and probably a receipt will be required.
2. If you hired a babysitter, and if she/he is over the age of 18, then the money might have to be declared as income. The babysitters will I suspect have to issue a receipt for receiving the money.
Unless of course this program is being run on the honor system, then everyone gets their money.
Lets see what happens.
Will the parents receiving the money also have to declare it as income, on next years income tax, will the Government deduct the tax at the source. Who knows??
How about give it to the pensioners. That will offset some of the higher cost of living.
Daily pay out of 6.5 million bucks.. So a cost of about 91 million dollars. Expensive bribe for sure
The teachers chose to be on strike. They aren’t owed the money the government saved by them not being at work.
@Palopu, the payments are tax free, and no, you don’t need to submit babysitter receipts. That would probably cost millions to administrate.
JohnnyBelt. The payments are tax free to the parents, however I doubt that the people who receive the money for the baby sitting services would be exempt from paying taxes. Income is income.
PVAL, when you are referring to an expensive bribe? are you referring to the BCTF/Glen Clark vote buying contract?
No tdiguy, the bribe crusty did to try to get parents on her side. Trying to get the parents to forget she was the run who illegally ripped up the teachers contract.. Hmmm.. She should be serving some jail time for breaking the law…
Pval, you can call it a bribe, but it is much more like a tax refund for services not performed…Illegal strikes taken by teachers are also worthy of Jail time.
Who’s money are they giving away? It’s sure not the governments. They don’t have any of their own money.
Do those mom’s who are already at home qualify for some of this money?
It’s so easy to be generous when you are giving away somebody else’s money.
And then take credit for it to boot.
“Pval, you can call it a bribe, but it is much more like a tax refund for services not performed..”
The refund should go back to the home owners that pay school taxes to the tune of 700.00 plus dollars a year! Not for daycare because people choose not to raise their own kids.
I totally agree NoWay. I pay school tax. That money was not used for its intended purpose so I want a rebate for the time the schools were closed. The government did not payout for 5 weeks so I should not have to pay for daycare. School is not a babysitting service.
Tdiguy, did everyone that pays school taxes get this refund..No. So it’s not for services not performed.
So the teachers were out for three weeks… What is crusty doing with this money? Maybe putting it back in ICBC instead of raising our rates.. Nope that won’t work, that would help out bc citizens.. Maybe help out senior citizens instead of constantly raising Medicare and lowering coverage, nopers, just mere citizens.. How would that help big business who bought her last election.., hmmm
P Val, so many of “you” seem to relish the opportunity to refer to some of “us” as teacher haters.
You should take a moment to read the comments that you post on this site! If I or others are teacher haters, do your “crusty” comments make you a hater??
I’m beginning to think that what with Christy Clark being a single woman, perhaps you asked her out and she turned you down! You do know that you can get counselling for your rejection issues, don’t you!!
I find it funny when people call this ‘vote buying’. This will be long forgotten by the next election.
Ah, six years of not having to listen to BCTF BS. Bliss.
Palopu: “JohnnyBelt. The payments are tax free to the parents, however I doubt that the people who receive the money for the baby sitting services would be exempt from paying taxes. ”
True, in some cases. In other cases, the baby sitters would have been young people who wouldn’t make enough to pay taxes.
To the 8%, good on you for not being greedy scavengers!
To the 92%, have fun at the casino and liquor store when the cheque arrives.
lildigger you must be referring to teachers?
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 @ 11:45 PM by lildigger
To the 8%, good on you for not being greedy scavengers!
To the 92%, have fun at the casino and liquor store when the cheque arrives.
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I know quite a few people who stay at home and are just looking at the 40 bucks as “free money”.
yeah, maybe they should have used those saving to pay for the Giscome School project as well as compensate all the other small communities that are forced to bus their children into town.
Or maybe put it towards the $200.00 increased taxes that we will see in the coming years.
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