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Professional Development Registry. Refer to: https://www.mrtq.org/.
41. Market Rate means the Child Care Affordability Program Payment rate paid to Child Care Providers for providing Child Care Services.
42. Misrepresentation means an action of an individual with the intention of receiving financial assistance the individual is not eligible to receive.
43. Night-Time Employment means employment in which hours worked are between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.
44. Non-Temporary Change means a Parent (a) is no longer Employed, (b) is no longer attending a Job Training Program or Educational Program, (c) has experienced a change in income that puts them over 85% or 125% of State Median Income (including due to a change in Employment), (d) has had another parent move into their home, or (e) has a change in Child Care Provider.
45. Notification of Termination means the document sent to the Parent and Child Care Provider by the Department notifying them of termination of Child Care Affordability eligibility.
46. Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) means the State agency within the Department that determines program eligibility for the Child Care Affordability Program.
47. Overpayment means when the amount paid exceeds the amount that would have been paid if the Child Care Affordability Program had been calculated correctly based on actual circumstances reported, verified, and acted on in a timely manner. Overpayments may occur as the result of Misrepresentation, Agency Administrative Error, or Parent or Child Care Provider error(s). 48. Parent means (a) a Child’s Parent by blood, marriage, or adoption whose parental rights have not been terminated, or (b) a Guardian. 49. Parent Fee means the Department-determined fee that a Parent must pay directly to the Child Care Provider as the Parent’s share of responsibility for the Child Care Provider’s fee that is the subject of the Child Care Affordability Program.
50. Preschool means a Child age three (3) years plus one day to age five (5), who has not yet entered kindergarten.
51. Primary Applicant means the first Parent’s name on the application.