DaycareSubsidyCheck

The Daycare Help Kit

The free check tells you where you stand. The kit is the paperwork layer for everything after the answer: applying in the agency's order, decoding the letter that comes back, pricing your real bill before you sign, keeping the help through raises and renewals, and judging a daycare by its record.

Get the Daycare Help Kit — $29 One-time payment. Yours to keep.

Get the Help — the application packet, in the agency's order

  • The full application packet, sequenced the way the agency processes it
  • The income-counting worksheet: what counts, what most states exclude, and how to document each source
  • The document stack checklist, including the lanes (foster, TANF, homeless, child-welfare) that waive pieces of it

Decode the Answer — denial translator, appeal calendar, reapply checklist

  • The denial translator: the 24 most common denial and closure wordings, in plain words, with the fix for each
  • The appeal-deadline calendar: how appeal windows run and how to protect yours
  • The reapply checklist for when the answer was a paperwork failure, not an eligibility failure

Know Your Real Bill — the co-pay + gap worksheet

  • The co-pay + gap worksheet: your fee-scale band and your overage, side by side, before you sign
  • The legal-extras list: which add-on charges are lawful in states that allow the gap, and which are not billable
  • The provider-contract read: the clauses that decide what you actually owe

Keep It & Plan — redetermination, the raise, the move

  • The redetermination calendar: your 12-month clock, the notices to expect, and the documents to keep warm
  • Raise math: entry line vs exit line worked examples, so a raise never surprises you at renewal
  • The cross-state comparison table: entry limits for a family of 4 in all 51 jurisdictions, for families weighing a move

Tour & Judge — the visit checklist and the record-reading walkthrough

  • The visit checklist: what to watch in the first ten minutes of a tour
  • The record-reading walkthrough: a real inspection report, read line by line, in plain words
  • The comparison worksheet: two or three centers, side by side, on the facts that matter

Get the Daycare Help Kit — $29 One-time payment. Yours to keep.

Questions

Is this the application?

No — only your state agency takes applications. The kit prepares yours so it lands complete, in the order the agency works it, with the documents already counted the way the agency counts them.

Does it cover my state?

Yes. The packet order, the fee worksheets, and the comparison table cover all 50 states and DC, from the same dataset as the free check, checked October 2026.

What do I get, exactly?

One kit page with all five sections as full, printable worksheets and checklists — the same page your payment unlocks, kept on your own device. No account, no subscription, one payment.

Get the Daycare Help Kit — $29 One-time payment. Yours to keep.