The payment problems are particularly difficult for providers who run small day care centers, often out of their homes, and who said they don’t have reserves of money to continue that work if they’re not paid.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Illinois child care providers are getting by without a paycheck as they await delayed payments from the state.
“We want to be made whole,” Mitchell said. “We demand that a hardship payment also be made to us for our late bills. We are also asking that they guarantee a pay date.”“If they learn to give us respect,” Murphy said, “we will have everything we need because they will know in that respect we want the same things that they want when they get their check. We want to feed our families, we want to pay our bills on time, and we don’t want to incur no late fees because of what someone else didn’t do.
SEIU Healthcare Illinois, the union representing Illinois child care workers, said payment delays are a recurring issue. Members want IDHS to implement a new system to prevent this from happening again. “Stress relief is because of child care providers,” Barr said. “Parents are stress-free because they have qualified day care providers to take their children to. I have two children here, and their parents are police officers, serving the community of Illinois. If we do not stand together and make sure that our payment system is working for the child care system, then the Illinois workers of Illinois would not be working.
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