Maryland recently made a major change in its administration of the federal child care subsidy program (CCDF, the Child Care and Development Fund). Through late 2015, local departments of social services in each county and in Baltimore City provided case management for families applying for and receiving child care subsidies. After that point, Maryland shifted case management to a private, centralized system called Child Care Subsidy Central (CCS Central). In many local departments of social services, case managers work with families across multiple social programs (e.g., Medicaid and SNAP). Prior to centralization, a case manager might have streamlined a family's case management by aligning, or linking, the eligibility periods for the family's benefits. If another social program required a shorter eligibility period, a family's eligibility period for a child care subsidy may have been shortened as a result. Centralizing the administration of child care subsidies effectively delinked the child care subsidy program from other social programs. Early childhood leaders in Maryland made this change, in part, to promote more stable child care arrangements for children receiving subsidies. This summary compares several predictors of stability in subsidized child care in Maryland, before and after the shift to CCS Central. This shift was one of several strategies that Maryland adopted around this time in preparation for the 2016 CCDF Final Rule, which went into effect just after this study ended. The Final Rule required states to assign all families an initial subsidy eligibility period of at least 12 months to promote more stable arrangements for subsidized children. (author abstract)