JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) announced that the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP) will resume accepting applications on August 1, 2025.

According to MDHS, applications will be offered in the order in which families were added to the waitlist, beginning April 1, 2025, and following.

Families on the CCPP waitlist will begin receiving email notifications with a personalized application link and a unique code to access the application portal.

Once a parent or guardian receives the application email, they have 10 days to complete it. If a family does not complete the application within this timeframe, the next family on the waitlist will be contacted.

Officials said families approved through this process will receive 12 months of child care assistance, with continued services dependent on available funding in 2026. Once an application is approved, parents will choose the provider in their community that best suits their child’s needs.

“MDHS is pleased to resume serving Mississippi’s working families,” said Dr. Chad Allgood, director of the MDHS Division of Early Childhood Care & Development. “We are committed to distributing this support fairly and efficiently to strengthen family stability and workforce participation across Mississippi.”

Once funds are obligated for CCPP certificates, CCPP applications will again pause until additional funding becomes available.

MDHS encourages parents currently on the waitlist to add ccnotices@mdhs.ms.gov as a contact in their email and check their spam folder if they do not see the notification in their email. For more information, families may contact the DECCD customer care line at 1-800-877-7882 or email ccnotices@mdhs.ms.gov.