Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Child Care Subsidy Administration
Wisconsin Shares Handbook
Travel time is the amount of time the parent needs to travel from the child care location to their approved activity and from the approved activity back to the child care provider location. For sleep hours and online education when the parent logs in from home, travel time includes the time the parent needs to travel from the child care provider to home for sleep or their education activity. Parents do not need to provide their travel time and approved activity time separately.
Agency workers must ensure that adequate travel time is included in the number of authorized hours by confirming with the parent that their self-declared child care need includes travel time.
Agency workers are not expected to manually calculate a daily average of a varying travel need and can use the maximum amount of daily travel need.
This section last updated 11/1/2024