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Princeton UniversitysEmployee Child Care
Assistance Program (ECCAP)
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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• What is the ECCAP?
• Whos eligible?
• How is the ECCAP award determined?
• How much is the ECCAP award?
• How do I apply?

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• What is the ECCAP?
• Financial assistance provided to eligible faculty
  and staff with pre-kindergarten children to help
  them meet the cost of child care.
• Covers a wide range of possible arrangements from
  in-home care to licensed day care centers.
• Please note the ECCAP award is considered as
  taxable compensation

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• Whos eligible?
• To be eligible, you must meet all of the
  following conditions
• benefits-eligible faculty or staff member
• unmarried or
• married or civil union with a spouse or partner
  who is
• Employed at least 50 time or
• A full-time student matriculated in a degree or
  certificate program, or,
• Disabled as defined by the Internal Revenue Code.
• total annual household income of less than 130K

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• To be eligible, you must meet all of the
  following conditions
• You must have a pre-kindergarten child who is
  your legal dependent, as defined by IRS
  regulations.
• - Child includes biological, step, adopted and
  foster child and any other child for whom you are
  the legal guardian or for whom you have
  court-awarded custody and /or the child of your
  same-sex domestic partner.
• - To be a dependent, your child must live with
  you for at least half the year (if divorced, the
  child(ren) may live with your former spouse) or,
  you must provide over one half of the childs
  support and nobody else can claim this child as
  their qualifying child.
• Your caregiver must provide a Tax ID or Social
  Security Number and must report the child care
  income on their tax return
• Your caregiver cannot be your spouse, partner or
  dependent.

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• How is the ECCAP award determined?
• An annual ECCAP application requires financial
  information about all sources of income for the
  individual(s) who are financially responsible for
  the child(ren) for whom the award applies,
  including
• Copies of recent pay stubs
• Copies of the 2006 federal income tax return

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• How much is the ECCAP award?
• Scale of Awards
• July 1, 2007 June 30, 2008
• Household
• Income 1st Child 2nd Child
• 0-65K 5K 1K
• 65-80K 4K 1K
• 80-95K 3K 1K
• 95-110K 2K 1K
• 110-130K 1K 1K

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• How do I apply?
• Applications will be available on-line, through
  the HR website, under the Employee Child Care
  Assistance Program, at
• http//www.princeton.edu/hr/worklife/index.htm
• The application deadline for the 2007-2008 award
  year is May 1, 2007.
• Return the application to the Office of Human
  Resources, 1 New South

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Employee Child Care Assistance Program (ECCAP)

• Questions?
• Contact a member of the Benefits team
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail benefits_at_princeton.edu