Cheques Are In The Mail Says Province
Prince George, B.C.- The Province has started issuing the cheques to families that applied for daycare subsidy during the strike by teachers in B.C.
Minister of Finance, Michael de Jong says familes can expect to start receiving the cheques in the mail shortly “Our intention with the temporary education support payment was to provide a modest degree of support for
parents who incurred most of those costs.”
About 165 thousand cheques have been mailed out since October 20th, that’s about half the number of cheques expected to be sent out.
The registrations so far involved nearly 295 thousand eligible students, so, if the Province was to spend $40 per day, per student, over 13 days, that would mean the Province is expecting to pay out about $153 million dollars.
Most families should expect to receive their cheque over the next couple of weeks.
Families that filed for students starting kindergarten or are new to BC public schools may have to wait a little longer as student registration will ned to be confirmed with school districts. Those families can expect payment to be mailed out in late November.
Parents (or primary caregivers) who have not yet registered for the payment, have until January 31st to do so. Registration can be done on line.
Comments
153 million.. Yikes.
I pay school taxes, I want a refund for the days school was not in session. Why should I be paying for someone else’s daycare ?
I agree. I pay into the education system, I should get the same refund as everyone else.
The refund is meant to cover daycare costs while schools were not in session. It was not meant to be a general refund.
I understand that JB but it isn’t correct that we pay for the daycare. I have no problem at all paying School tax.. But it’s called School Tax, not daycare, or babysitting tax. We have all had our lives interfered with due to some labour issue. I don’t get paid extra when I needed more babysitting than expected, comes with the terrotory if choosing to be a patent.
Tax payers should not foot this bill, but crusty will happily dip her hands once again in our wallets. She won’t stop until all our wallets are empty..
It will be no diferent than the welfare cheque the bars will be full and all the fast food joints will be busy . This looks so bad on Dear Chrispie , we have seniors who cannot afford meds and food , the homeless , our medical care in ruin. What the hell is she thinking .
P Val: “I understand that JB but it isn’t correct that we pay for the daycare. I have no problem at all paying School tax.. But it’s called School Tax, not daycare, or babysitting tax.”
This is true. In the old days, the money saved on strikes was given back to the teachers in their settlements. This time, it went back to the parents to offset the added cost of daycare while teachers were on strike.
By way of disclosure, I will be getting a cheque for this for my kids, even though I could afford the extra for the daycare. Many low income working families were not in the same position.
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