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

23 PPPPP. “Willful misrepresentation/withholding of information” means an understatement, overstatement, or omission, whether oral or written, made by a household voluntarily or in response to oral or written questions from the Department or a county, and/or a willful failure by a household to report changes in income, if the household’s income exceeds eighty-five percent (85%) of the State median income within ten (10) days, or changes to the qualifying eligible activity within four (4) weeks of the change. 3.104 CCCAP APPROPRIATIONS A. Nothing in these rules shall create a legal entitlement to child care assistance. Counties shall not be required to expend funds exceeding allocated state and federal dollars or exceeding any matching funds expended by the counties as a condition of drawing down federal and state funds. B. Counties have an affirmative duty to proactively manage their CCCAP allocations and to monitor their projected expenditures. When a county or the Department identifies a projected expenditure exceeding the county’s allocation, the county must submit a revised county plan or county rate plan with proposed cost- containment measures to the Department subject to the processes as described in subsections (E) and (F) below. 1. When a county can demonstrate, through a written justification in its county plan or county rate plan, that it has insufficient CCCAP allocations, a county is not required to implement a provision or provisions of rule(s) enacted under statutory provisions that are explicitly subject to available appropriations. The county is not required to implement that or those rules or statutory provision(s) for which it has demonstrated through its county plan or county rate plan that it has insufficient CCCAP allocations to implement, except for the entry income eligibility floor referenced in rule section 3.111(H). 2. As part of its demonstration, the county shall include a list of priorities reflecting community circumstances in its county plan or county rate plan