Child care workers complain of delayed payments from state

As local demand for day care services skyrockets, some Maryland child care workers say they are hesitant about accepting certain low-income families as clients, because the state has been unreliable and often late in issuing payment vouchers for their services.

Payment problems last year helped the Service Employees International Union 500 galvanize some child care workers to vote to form a union after some workers went months without pay. But officials with the state Department of Education say those problems were largely resolved and workers should receive invoices every two weeks.