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Title 13: Social Service Resources Page 102 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter G: Child Care Assistance Authorizing Services Revised June 14, 2024 Unit of Service

1. Ms. M is a working single parent with a two-year-old who requires a full day of child care and two school-age children who require before- and after- school care. Her work hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. She drops her children off at the provider’s home on her way to work. The school-age children are in care in the morning from 7:40 a.m. until almost 9:00 a.m., when the provider takes them to school. The two-year-old remains in the provider’s care for the entire day. The provider picks the school-age children up after school and provides care from 3:15 p.m. until almost 5 p.m. The M family is approved for the following half-day units: ▪ Two half-day units per workday for the two-year-old; ▪ One half-day unit per workday for each school-age child. The Notice of Decision: Child Care is completed to show that the M family is approved for 2 half-day units per workday for the two-year-old and one half-day unit per workday on school days and two half-day units per workday for nonschool days for each school-age child. 2. Ms. A is a single parent with three school-age children who require care before and after school. She works are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. She drops her children off with the provider on her way to work. The children are in care from 7:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m., when the provider drops them off at school. The provider picks the children up from school and provides care from 3:15 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. The Notice of Decision: Child Care is completed to show that the A family is approved for one half-day unit per workday on school days and two half-day units per workday for nonschool days for each child. When a family is using multiple providers in the same day, additional units may need to be approved in order to correctly pay both providers.

Ms. B is a full time student with a 2-year-old daughter. She attends classes five days per week. Her class schedule looks like this: M-W-F: 11-2 p.m. T- Th 9-10 a.m. 7:30-9:00 p.m. Including actual travel time, she is approved for one half-day unit per day Monday through Friday. Ms. B uses a child care center for care during the daytime class hours Monday through Friday and a nonregistered provider for the evening class hours on Tuesday and Thursday. She uses two providers on Tuesday and Thursday. Do not split a unit of care between providers. Schedules will be approved for each provider for one unit for the child care services provided.