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ELIGIBILE CCDF AND OMW PROVIDERS

All providers are required to submit a W-9 form to be verified with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Reimbursement will not be made until the verification has been completed and approved. The following categories of providers with a valid Indiana child care license are considered eligible providers.

Please note: Licensed providers that are under enforcement action will not be eligible to receive public funds through the subsidy program. Eligible providers are: Licensed Child Care Center (IC 12-7-2-28.4) – a non-residential building where at least one child receives child care from a provider: 1. While unattended by a parent, legal guardian or custodian, 2. For regular compensation, 3. For more than four (4) hours but less than 24 hours in each of ten (10) consecutive days per year excluding intervening Saturday, Sunday and/or holidays. Licensed Class I Child Care Home (Sec. 33.7 (a)) – a child care home that serves any combinations of full time and part time children, not to exceed at any one (1) time twelve (12) children plus three (3) additional children during the school year only who are enrolled in at least full day kindergarten. Except as provided in IC 12-17.25-6.3(b), the addition of three (3) school age children may not occur during a break in the school year that exceeds four (4) weeks. (b) A child: (1) for whom a provider of care in the care home is a parent, stepparent, guardian, custodian or other relative and who is at least seven (7) years of age; or (2) who is at least fourteen (14) years of age and does not require child care: shall not be counted in determining whether the child care home is within the limit set forth. Licensed Class II Child Care Home (Sec. 1) – A class II child care home serves more than twelve (12) children but not more than sixteen (16) full time and part time children at any one (1) time. All providers are required to meet CCDF Provider Eligibility Standards.

CCDF Provider Eligibility Standards (PES): Effective July 1, 2002, and amended in subsequent years (please refer to https://www.in.gov/fssa/carefinder/files/CCDF-Provider-Eligibility-Standards-Summary.pdf)child care providers to comply with certain health and safety standards prior to their participation in the Child Care and Development Fund Voucher Program. Unlicensed child care providers must demonstrate compliance with the CCDF Provider Eligibility Standards through written documentation as well as a home/facility inspection. The verifying agencies are as follows: • Registered child care ministries – Office of Early Childhood and Out of School Learning Facilities Consultant • Legally License Exempt child care providers/In-home care by a non-relative (Nanny Care) – OECOSL LLEP Consultant Providers that must demonstrate they meet Provider Eligibility Standards (PES) are: