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the department will disregard the income resources and expenses of a parent if it finds that the parent cannot be located or has abandoned the child, or has refused to contribute to the support of the child. However, the department reserves the right to recover from the parent who abandoned the child or who has refused to contribute, any and all amounts paid as a result of the operation of this subsection, together with any costs and interest allowed by law. (e) The department will consider a payment by a child or the child’s family to be a payment of all or part of the family’s participation amount only if the cost paid was for a service that meets the requirements of 7 AAC 23.150. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the department will pay a cost only after the applying family has paid the entire applicable family participation amount. In the discretion of the department, and if the applicant agrees to a plan of financial participation, the department will pay costs before the entire participation amount is paid. A plan of financial participation must provide for payment by the applying family of the entire yearly participation during the current enrollment period of the child and must demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the applying family will meet its obligations under the plan. (f) The department will reduce or waive the participation amount calculated in this section if the department, based on clear and convincing evidence, finds that the child would otherwise die or suffer permanent, severe disability, or that the family would suffer extreme and life-threatening privation if it met the prescribed participation amount. The department reserves the right to recover from the child, or the child’s parent or parents, the amount of any and all benefits paid as a result of the operation of this subsection, together with any costs and interest prescribed by law. (g) The department will recalculate the family participation amount annually, and at any time that

(1) the family’s adjusted income for a calendar quarter, determined as described in (b)(1) — (b)(6) of this section, varies by more than 25 percent from that of the same calendar quarter of the previous year; or

(2) the department requests that a new financial report form be completed. (Eff. 6/28/85, Register 94) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 18.05.010 AS 18.05.030 AS 18.05.040 Editor’s note: With Register 179, October 2006 and under the authority of AS 44.62.125, the regulations attorney changed obsolete terminology concerning persons with disabilities in conformity with ch. 25, SLA 2006.