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Child Care Assistance Program Policy Manual Issued 05/2023 CCAP family - Temporary absence 5.6 • Close the service authorization allowing for a 15-day notice when the school year ends and the children are expected to temporarily leave the household. See Chapter 9.12 (Authorization Changes During the 12-month Eligibility Period. • Suspend the case while the children are temporarily absent for the summer months. See Chapter 8.9 (Suspending). Parenting time arrangements – child resides in multiple homes When a child resides in multiple homes, each family can apply for child care assistance. Parenting time arrangements are an example of when a child residing in two homes can be included in more than one CCAP case. In these situations: • The child is considered to be temporarily absent from each home during the time the child is not in residence in that home. • The child is included in the CCAP family household composition in each family. • Child care can be authorized for each CCAP case based on when the child is residing with each family. • Each case would have to cooperate with child support enforcement at application and redetermination because there is an absent parent in each case. • Eligibility, income, copayment, household size, and Service Authorizations are determined separately for each case. When a child resides in more than one household and care is authorized to different providers on each case, care should be authorized to support the activities of the PRI(s) when the child resides at that PRI’s home. Do not authorize care for the days the child does not reside in the PRI’s home to prevent absent days from being paid to the provider(s) not caring for the child when the child is in the home of the other CCAP family. See Chapter 9.1 (Authorizing child care). For more information on a CCAP family, see Chapter 2 (Glossary), Chapter 5.3 (Determining the CCAP family) and Chapter 5.9 (CCAP family composition examples). Parent temporarily absent – children temporarily staying with someone else Children may be temporarily staying with someone else if their parent is temporarily absent. For example, a child may be temporarily staying with someone else while their parent is in treatment, incarcerated or in the hospital. If a child is temporarily staying with someone who is not a Parentally Responsible Individual, that person is not eligible to receive child care assistance for the child. However, authorization can sometimes continue under the parent’s’ case. A number of policies must be considered to determine if care can be authorized when a child is temporarily staying with someone else. Policies to consider are: • The person who requested assistance must meet applicant requirements. See Chapters 4.1 (Applicant requirements) and 5.3 (Determining the CCAP Family). • At application and redetermination, the parent(s) must meet activity requirements. See Chapter 4.6 (CCAP Authorized Activities) and all subchapters.