Skip to content
ChoicePaid
Menu

Florida programs that pay providers

Florida runs the Florida scholarships through Step Up For Students. Here's who runs it, how you get paid, and where to start, with the full cited guide one click away.

Programs

Step Up For Students, for the state

Florida scholarships through Step Up For Students

Florida's largest choice scholarships (Unique Abilities, Educational Options, Florida Tax Credit, Personalized Education and New Worlds) are administered by Step Up For Students. Providers set up an account in its EMA system, submit a service catalog with credentials, and are paid directly or through family reimbursement.

When you can bill
After the service is delivered1
Prepaid services
Up to 3 months ahead2
Florida provider directory. Browse 162 approved providers by city and type.

Programs in nearby states

Each program approves providers separately, so serving families across a state line means applying there too.

The federal scholarship tax credit in Florida

  • Beginning January 1, 2027, individual taxpayers may be able to claim a Federal Scholarship Tax Credit for cash contributions of up to $1,700 to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs). A state must choose to participate and give the IRS its list of SGOs before taxpayers can donate to an SGO in that state and claim the credit.3
  • Florida is on the IRS list of states that have made an advance election to participate in the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit for 2027 (list as of September 14, 2026).3

What this means for providers will depend on how Florida's scholarship granting organizations set up their scholarships. We'll add those rules as they're published.

Where Florida sits

Provider guide publishedNo program we cover yetOpted in to the 2027 federal scholarship tax credit

Sources

  1. 1.2024-25 FES-UA School and Provider Handbook, Step Up For Students, p. 17, updated Jan 14, 2025
  2. 2.2024-25 FES-UA School and Provider Handbook, Step Up For Students, p. 19, updated Jan 14, 2025
  3. 3.Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), Internal Revenue Service, updated Sep 16, 2026

Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll check it against official sources. Neighboring states: Alabama, Georgia.