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Child Care Assistance Program Policy Manual Issued 11/2022 Children of child care providers 9.15.21 Non-center providers The following providers are NOT eligible to receive child care assistance for their own children or children in their family during the hours they are providing child care or being paid to provide child care: • Licensed family child care providers and their employees, • Legal nonlicensed child care providers and their employees, and; • Any person providing child care in a setting other than a child care center, such as a babysitter or nanny. These providers are eligible to receive child care assistance for their children when they are engaged in other authorized activities, as long as the hours do not overlap with the hours they provide care or with the hours they are being paid to provide care. This includes the full 10 hours counted when care is provided by a licensed family child care provider for more than five hours. If a parent with no other authorized activity is employed at a licensed family home, as a legal nonlicensed (LNL) provider, or is providing child care in any setting other than a child care center, the employment may be an authorized activity for purposes of determining CCAP eligibility but care cannot be authorized. The family’s case is suspended if there is no other authorized activity. Note: For families eligible for the Expedited Child Care for Families Experiencing Homeless policy and with a parent providing child care or being paid to provide child care as identified above, the family can be authorized up to 30 hours per week outside of the hours the parent is providing care. If the family does not request care outside of the parent’s work hours as a provider, suspend the case. See Chapter 8.9 (Suspending) and 9.1.15 (Authorizing care – Expedited Child Care). This does not apply to licensed or license exempt child care centers and their employees. Licensed and license exempt centers No more than 25 center employees’ children or dependents can be authorized for child care assistance per child care center. For the purposes of this policy, “child or dependent” means the center employee is the child’s birth or adoptive parent, stepparent, legal guardian, or Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) or Diversionary Work Program (DWP) caregiver. “Center employee” means a person who is: • employed by a licensed or certified license-exempt child care center; • not employed by a licensed or certified-license exempt child care center, but: o has direct contact with children that the center serves; and o is required to have a background study under Minnesota law; • a contractor, specifically any individual, regardless of employer, who is providing program services for hire under the control of the provider; or • a child care staff member as defined by federal law, which means an individual: