Child Care Co-Payments to Raise in W. Va. - WTRF 7 News Sports Weather - Wheeling Steubenville

Parents who need help taking care of their children are bracing for some higher costs.

A program in West Virginia that helps mothers and fathers pay for day care is hiking its co-payments from about five percent to 12 percent. 

That means parents who have been paying about $2.35 cents per day to keep their children in child care while they work will now pay nearly $9.00.

Program leaders say they understand the hike will be difficult, but that West Virginia's co-payments remain much lower than that of its neighboring states.