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individual’s request, the case manager will provide Head Start organizations with a completed MDHS-EA-365/565, Resource Service Referral Notice, to provide documentation of the family’s active TANF status. The case manager is urged to fully utilize these services as an additional source of quality child care for TANF Work Program participants. TANF TWP CHILD CARE (Open TANF Cases) TANF TWP child care is the 1st families have top priority group to for receiveing child care services. TANF TWP child care is available to TANF recipients who are required to participate in the TANF Work Program not exempt from and are in compliance with TANF work requirements. Child care expenses for children of TWP participants will be paid at 100 percent, unless the parent or caretaker relative chooses a provider that charges more than the rate allowed by the DECCD. Good coordination and communication between the case manager, the DECCD, the participant, and the provider are critical in eliminating child care as a barrier to participation in the TANF Work Program. Arrangement of TANF Child Care Services for TWP Participants A parent/caretaker must successfully complete the TWP intake process (orientation, assessment, EDP TWP, component assignment, etc.) relative must successfully complete the TWP orientation process including TWP Work Registration, the assessment at the WIN Job Center (after case is referred to MDES) and the need for child care assistance must be determined before the case manager will process a Referral for Child Care Services (CR01). The WIN Job Center interviewer and MDHS case manager must consider the child care referral process and the time required to complete the DECCD certificate process when determining the expected start date for the participant’s component assignment. The case manager will use the following procedures must be used to arrange child care services for a TWP participant: Upon completion of the TWP intake process (orientation, assessment and EDP), assign the TWP participant to the appropriate allowable work activity. If child care services are needed, the TWP participant must complete and submit a TANF Child Care Application, MDHS-EA-379 to the WIN Job Center interviewer.

1. An application for TANF TWP child care services is not approved or denied in JAWS. The application must be scanned to the participant’s electronic case record.

Note: The MDHS-EA-379 will be given to the parent/caretaker relative at the MDHS orientation appointment at parent’s/caretaker relative’s MDHS county office. The application must be scanned to the TWP supportive services folder in the participant’s electronic case record. 10077 Volume III | Chapter 10 MISSISSIPPI [ TANF WORK PROGRAM PAYMENT PROCESS: SUPPORTIVE SERVICES]

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