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CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS 8 CCR 1403-1 Colorado Child Care Assistance Program

103 child care provider(s) and adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s) to resolve the inaccuracy. 2. That either the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s) or the child care provider has attempted to defraud the program or receive benefits to which they were not eligible. The county or its designee shall report that information to the appropriate legal authority. OOO. Counties shall refer, within fifteen (15) calendar-days of establishing recovery, to the appropriate investigatory agency and/or the district attorney, any alleged discrepancy which may be a suspected fraudulent act by a household or child care provider. PPP. In collecting evidence of fraudulent activities, the counties or their designee shall not violate the legal rights of the individual. When the county has questions about whether an action it contemplates might violate the legal rights of the individual, it should seek the advice of its legal advisor. QQQ. Counties shall establish recoveries within twelve (12) months of discovery of the facts resulting in recovery. RRR. Counties shall take whatever action is necessary to recover payments when households and/or child care providers owe money to the Department because of overpayments, ineligibility and/or failure to comply with applicable state laws, rules, or procedures. SSS. Counties shall report established recoveries that are the result of legally designated or determined fraud or recoveries of five-thousand dollars ($5,000) or more to the Department. 3.126 PRE-ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS An Early Care and Education provider may provide services to the household prior to the final determination of eligibility and shall be reimbursed for such services only if the county determines the household is eligible for Low-Income Child Care services and there is no need to place the household on the wait list or freeze if the county has been granted approval by the Department, as described in rule section 3.104, to accept and