In November 2014, Congress reauthorized CCDBG with strong bipartisan support. The updated law makes a number of improvements including increased health, safety and quality standards for child care, as well as reforms to make the child care subsidy program less burdensome for families and improve children's continuity of care. The reauthorization recognizes the need to make improvements to state child care subsidy programs that support both parental employment and child well-being. Not all of these policies related to determining eligibility and authorizing care are explicitly addressed in the new law; however, improving state policies in the areas discussed in this brief would further advance the goals of the legislation and are worth considering as states undertake major changes to subsidy policies. Within the large set of state decisions impacting eligibility and authorization of care, a few policies to simplify the provision of child care assistance stand out. In our work with states through the WSS initiative, we have found the following policy areas to be particularly burdensome for both parents and CCDF administering agencies, as well as disruptive of continuity for children and impeding access to high-quality care: Minimum hour work requirements for eligibility; Job schedule and hours verification; and Matching children's child care hours precisely to parents' work hours. In this brief, we discuss how recent trends related to job schedules and subsidy policies provide an opportunity for states to make changes in eligibility and verification policies. Furthermore, we outline potential state policy choices and the implications for how changes in the subsidy policies would improve the receipt and retention of child care assistance for low-income families. (author abstract)