The Taipei City Government's monthly subsidy for government-contracted daycare is to rise by NT$3,000 starting in July, a move expected to benefit 8,000 children under the age of three, city officials said yesterday.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) yesterday announced a set of childcare measures, headlined by a NT$3,000 increase in the city's monthly daycare subsidy.
Photo: Tien Yu-hua, Taipei Times
The subsidy is available for children under the age of three enrolled in private daycare or for home-based care provided by operators who have signed contracts with the city to offer quasi-public services, the Taipei Department of Social Welfare said.
Those private daycare facilities are subject to a monthly fee cap of NT$23,500 set by the city government, while the limit for registered home-based daytime caregivers is NT$20,000, the department said.
With the existing NT$13,000 monthly subsidy for the first child from the central government and the upcoming increase to NT$8,000 from Taipei, families with children in contracted private daycare will pay a maximum of NT$2,500 per month, it added.
Currently, the central government provides a monthly daycare subsidy of NT$14,000 for a second child and NT$15,000 for a third child or more.
With the upcoming NT$3,000 increase, the city government subsidy for a second child and above is to reach NT$10,000, effectively making childcare free for parents.
Meanwhile, with the planned expansion of the city's drop-in childcare network from 24 to 45 sites in September, Chiang said that families with infants aged six months to one year would be eligible for eight hours of free service, a benefit valued at NT$1,600.
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