Online service helps South Carolina families receive child care assistance - WRDW

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Department of Social Services announces the motorboat of the South Carolina Voucher online exertion portal for families to person kid attraction assistance, effectual arsenic of Oct. 13.

According to the department, this online work present allows families to use for kid attraction fiscal assistance online connected the South Carolina Child Care website.

Along with applying for the programme online, individuals tin securely upload supporting documents specified arsenic wage statements, schoolhouse and grooming verifications, and impervious of disablement income. After applying, individuals tin log into the portal 24/7 to way the presumption of their application.

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The department’s State director, Michael Leach, says, “The section is gathering our customers and clients wherever they are, erstwhile they request assistance and moving to chopped reddish portion and processing times. The caller portal is simply a simpler, much streamlined process of applying for kid attraction fiscal assistance that eliminates the task of emailing a completed exertion to voucher and waiting for a telephone telephone oregon missive successful the message for the adjacent steps.”

Currently, much than 36,000 children are receiving prime kid attraction due to the fact that of the program.

“Families tin summation a consciousness of alleviation knowing that everything astir their voucher exertion tin beryllium accessed done the portal astatine the client’s convenience,” Leach says.

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