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(q) The family shall retain for at least three years all records related to attendance of children in care, requests for payment under this chapter, and in-home child care caregiver employment. (r) The family and the approved in-home child care caregiver shall cooperate with the department or a designee for purposes of monitoring reviews or investigations to determine compliance with this section. In this subsection, “cooperate” includes providing access to

(1) the site where care is provided;

(2) records; and

(3) children for purposes of conducting interviews. (s) Benefits will not be paid for care rendered by an in-home child care caregiver before the effective date of the department’s approval of the caregiver. (t) The family shall provide notice of at least 10 business days, except in the circumstances described in 7 AAC 41.320(c)(4)(A) and (B), to the department or designee when discontinuing employment of the family’s in-home child care caregiver. The notice must include the last date care is to be provided. If an enrollment authorization is currently in place and the family provides written notice of at least 10 business days to discontinue services, the department will, or the designee shall, pay for authorized care only through the indicated last date of care. The department will pay for care provided by a subsequent in-home child care caregiver only after the family submits the information required under (b) of this section and the department issues an approval under (d) of this section for the subsequent caregiver. (u) In addition to the program benefits authorized for a participating family, the family may request payment from the program and be paid for up to 10 hours of care each day, not to exceed 50 hours of care in a month, when a school-age child as described in 7 AAC 41.025(b) was in care because of being too ill to attend school. (Eff. 6/23/2006, Register 178; am 2/9/2007, Register 181; am 1/5/2017, Register 221; am 6/29/2017, Register 222; am 10/31/2019, Register 232) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.05.330 AS 47.25.051

AS 47.05.300 AS 47.25.001 7 AAC 41.375. Compliance and other reviews.