North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore highlighted the financial assistance available to essential workers during the pandemic. | Facebook
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore highlighted the financial assistance available to essential workers during the pandemic. | Facebook
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is providing essential workers with financial assistance for child care and bonus to teachers and staff working at those programs.
House Speaker Time Moore (R-Kings Mountain) posted to Facebook that North Carolina's budget can help provide these needs to essential workers during this critical time.
"North Carolina has a strong budget and savings in place to support new critical needs: 'Emergency child care financial assistance for essential workers...child care teachers see bonuses in their pay...N.C. Pre-K providers will receive payments in full,'" Moore said in a Facebook post.
Individuals who are eligible for financial assistance must have an income below 300% of the poverty line, are en essential employee working on the front lines of the pandemic and have no other child care options available to them, according to WLOS.
Employees of child care services will receive bonuses in May and April, according to WLOS. Programs that stay open to provide services to essential workers will receive $300 a month for every full-time instructor and $200 a month for every non-teaching staff member employed.
Financial assistance for child care will be offered through the end of May but could be extended, WLOS reported.
To find a child care service offering the most up-to-date health, safety and operational guidelines, a hotline partnered with North Carolina Child Care Resource and Referral Network is available for essential workers. Parents and caregivers can call 888-600-1685 to speak with a representative to find child care for children up to the age of 12.
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