8 Tips To Save On Child Care Costs

Child care costs are are one of the mostSee if your public school district offers a half day
expensive costs associated with going back topre-kindergarten program for 4-year-olds. These
work. Finding ways to cut down on child careprograms are usually free and by signing-up your
costs without sacrificing quality child care is a topchild, it will reduce your child care needs to a half
priority for all working parents. Here are a fewday from a full day.
ideas that can help trim your child care costsCheck to see if your employer would be open to
without sacrificing child care quality:flex hours, job sharing or telecommuting. If so,
See if your employer has a child care flexibleyou may be able to use these to juggle your
spending account. This is a special account thatschedule and cut your child care costs.
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - [ - createdIf both you and your spouse work, see if it's
that allows you to set aside money for child carepossible to arrange your work schedules so they
expenses with pre-tax dollars. You ask youroverlap as little as possible. This will allow you to
employer to take out a certain amount of moneyreduce the number of hours your child has to
each month from your paycheck and you canspend at child care.
use this money tax free for child care relatedSee if there is a relative or good friend that can
expenses.help with child care.
Inquire if your company has partnerships orConsider hiring a nanny and sharing the cost of
offers discounts for certain child care providerchild care with a few good friends. This will allow
services. some larger companies will sometimesyou to pay less individually for child care costs and
negotiate discount plans with local child carethe nanny will make more money overall.
providers to help offset child care costs.