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PROGRAM SUSPENSION In certain situations where there are immediate concerns for the protection of children or the integrity of the program, OECOSL may take adverse action against a program, affecting the ability of the program to participate in the voucher program. Reimbursement will cease upon suspension or termination of an eligible program. A CCDF or OMW program may be suspended from participating in the voucher program by OECOSL for the following reasons:

• Death or serious injury of a child while in the program’s care, pending the outcome of the investigation; • A pending abuse or neglect charge against the program, an existing employee or volunteer of the program, or in the case of a licensed or legally license exempt child care home, a member of the provider’s household; • Substantiated health or safety hazard posing an immediate threat to the health or safety of the children in care; • Threatening behavior directed towards a representative of OECOSL or its agents; • Providing false or misleading information on any form connected with the Voucher Program; • Illegally operating a child care program; • Failure to respond to OECOSL’s request for information, including but not limited to, written attendance records; • Failure to meet the CCDF Provider Eligibility Standards (PES), IC 12-17.2-3.5; • Documentation of an eligible child’s attendance, by the program, in a manner not allowed by OECOSL (including receiving payment for a child that is not enrolled and attending the program); • Failure to respond to a repayment agreement or to remain current with any repayment agreement in place with OECOSL; • Failure to allow OECOSL staff or its agents access to the child care program, child care staff and/or other child care records; • Charging the voucher program for time the eligible child was not cared for at the approved address; • Substantiated violation of voucher program policies and procedures; • Substantiated fraud, any components of fraud, or the illegal receipts of government funds. PROGRAM TERMINATION Termination of a program will become effective immediately upon notice. Reimbursement will cease upon termination of the ineligible program. A program will be terminated by OECOSL for the following reasons:

• A Child Protective Services (CPS) substantiation of abuse or neglect against the program, an existing employee or volunteer of the program, or in the case of a licensed or legally license exempt child care home, a member of the provider’s household; • Substantiated fraud, any component of fraud, or the illegal receipts of government funds by any governmental agency; • For licensed child care programs, the loss of licensure; • Illegally operating child care programs; • Repeated failure to meet CCDF Provider Eligibility Standards (PES) under IC 12-7.2-3.5 even if insufficiencies have been corrected; • Pending criminal charges for fraud, any component of fraud and/or voucher program policies or procedures by any governmental agency; • Repeated substantiated violation of voucher program policies and procedures; • Providing false or misleading information on any form connected with the voucher program; • Charging the voucher program for time a voucher child was not in attendance, excluding approved days as allowed by OECOSL;