After feds bungle management, contractor to resume control of Army child-care program

The Washington Post: The government will turn over the management of a program that helps Army families pay for private child care back to a private contractor after a federal agency bungled the job for a year, officials said Wednesday.

Child Care Aware of America, which ran the Army Fee Assistance program from 2004 and 2014 before the Army canceled the contract to save money and gave responsibility for it to the General Services Administration, will start accepting applications on Feb. 22, said witnesses who testified at a congressional hearing.

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