For some families, child care costs more than their mortgage or rent. If you've only got one child in care, there will be no difference to your usual childcare subsidy. So, what the government has called your "standard rate child" will get your usual rate of childcare subsidy. But with the changes in place, your second child will receive an …
Labour party leader Lodewijk Asscher’s apology for his role in the childcare subsidy scandal sent shockwaves through his party. Last week, a scathing report into the multi-year political scandal, which left some families in ruins, found that, among other things, the rule of law had been violated and that parents had been done “unprecedented injustice.” Asscher publicly apologized on Facebook …