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established time frame. The case manager will use the appropriate TANF child care information sheet (MDHS-EA-379A or MDHS-EA-379B) for completing the certificate process timely. A copy of the MDHS-EA-379A or MDHS-EA-379B will be given to the parent.Once a child care application has been registered in MAVERICS it can be denied in MAVERICS or JAWS as follows: 1. If the Child Care (CC) Program has not been referred to JAWS (CC Program status is still in received status on CAP2 and no referral date displays on CHCS), enter a stop date equal to the application date on each individual displayed on the CHCS screen and in the STOP DATE field. Enter a STOP REASON (client request “CR” or registered in error “ER”), AUTH PCN and press enter. 2. Once a CC Program has been registered in MAVERICS and referred to JAWS (CC Program status is open on ICLI), JAWS will automatically close the CC Program after 30 days if no action has been taken on the case, i.e., a Referral for Child Care Services, (CR01), has not

Volume III | Chapter 10 PROVISIONS FOR CHILD CARE CERTIFICATION The DECCD requires the applicant to apply for child support services as part of the approval process for a child care certificate. The child care certificate recipient must cooperate with the DEA as a condition of continued eligibility for the child care certificate. DECCD Child Support Procedures When parents apply for child care subsidy, they are required to provide their name, SSN, names of their children, and whether or not they have an open child support case with the MDHS DEA. The applicants are instructed to open a case if one is not opened, and that their application for child care services is incomplete due to non-compliance with child support. It is the responsibility of the client to contact DECCD and inform them a child support case has been opened or they have complied with child support. The DECCD staff will use the existing electronic interface with METSS to determine if the parent is cooperating with child support, and to determine the amount of child support collected in the past year. METSS/DECCD Interface METSS extracts any open cases and any cases pending to open on the first of the following month with children 21 years old or younger. This information is provided nightly to DECCD child care staff to perform a search with the client’s information. The search results will display the child care certificate number, custodial parent unique ID, kid unique ID, cooperation flag, kid removal reason, kid removal date, closure reason, and closure date. DECCD sends a file to METSS on a monthly basis which contains a record of all child care clients. METSS then matches the clients' names and social security numbers against METSS data along with the child (ren)'s names and SSNs to find the appropriate child support cases based on the case status, the child participation code, and the custodial parent cooperation code. A report will be generated for DECCD providing the status of cooperation, participation, and/or closure statuses received on the file. 10071