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Child Care Assistance Program Policy Manual Issued 07/2023 Disqualification for wrongfully obtaining assistance - Families 13.6 Disqualify families who have committed an Intentional Program Violation (IPV) or have been found to have wrongfully obtained child care assistance as established by any of the following: • Court conviction. • Signed Disqualification Consent Agreement (DCA) DHS-3429 (PDF). • Pre-trial diversion. • Administrative Disqualification Hearing (ADH) finding. • Signed Waiver of an Administrative Disqualification Hearing (ADH) DHS-3131 (PDF). • Court-ordered stay which carries with it any other probationary terms or conditions. Do NOT disqualify a family from CCAP unless an IPV has been established through one of these methods. Disqualify the entire family from receiving benefits for the following lengths of time when a member or members of a family receiving child care assistance is found to have committed an Intentional Program Violation or to have wrongfully obtained child care assistance: • One year for the first offense • Two years for the second offense • Permanently for any subsequent violation. Two-parent families and fraud determinations If only one parent in a two-parent family is found to have committed an Intentional Program Violation (IPV), the entire family is disqualified from receiving child care assistance. However, only create a fraud window for the parent who committed the IPV. Assign an overpayment to both parentally responsibility individuals (PRI) if: • An overpayment resulted from the conduct that caused the disqualification AND • The Intentional Program Violation establishes that both the PRIs were considered part of the CCAP family when the overpayment occurred and both parties have responsibility to repay the overpayment. Example Family was receiving CCAP but never reported that dad was living in the home. Had the family reported dad in the home, they would have been ineligible for CCAP due to excess income. Mom signed an Administrative Disqualification Hearing (ADH) waiver, which disqualified the family from receiving CCAP for one year for the family’s first offense. Dad did not sign an ADH waiver, so a fraud window was created for mom only. An overpayment was assessed and assigned to both mom and dad for the time when the family was ineligible because dad was living in the home.