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REV. MARCH 10, 2009

NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF CCS PROGRAM MANUAL LETTER # 17-2009 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 392 NAC 3-008.01A

3-008.01A Limit on Hours of Assistance:

3-008.01A1 Weekly Limit: A client is limited to 60 hours of Child Care Subsidy per week. 3-008.01A2 Daily Limit: The Department will pay for a maximum of 18 hours a day of care. This must comply with the 60-hour a week limit. 3-008.01B Education or Training: If the client is requesting child care in order to attend training or an educational activity beyond secondary school or GED classes, the training or education must: 1. Be consistent with the client’s employment goals; and 2. Be in a program that will help the client achieve or maintain economic self-support. In order to ensure that participation in training or an educational activity is meaningful and productive, the client must be in good standing or making satisfactory progress in his/her educational activity. The educational institution’s standard is to be used to determine good standing and satisfactory progress. A client may still be considered as making satisfactory progress if below the institution’s standard if there are mitigating circumstances which affect the individual’s performance during the specified period of time. 3-008.01C Time Between Classes: A client who is attending school or training is not allowed Child Care Subsidy for study time but may receive it for a reasonable period of time between classes. 3-008.01D Employment: If the client is requesting child care for employment, the employment must have the potential to allow the client to achieve or maintain economic self-sufficiency. 3-008.01D1 Employment as Child Care Provider: The Department will not pay for child care for a child care provider’s children. Some providers will send their own children to another provider for care; the Department will not pay for this care. Exception: This prohibition does not apply for a foster parent, subsidized guardian, or subsidized adoptive parent who is also a child care provider. To avoid jeopardizing a placement, the Department will pay if a foster parent (or subsidized guardian or subsidized adoptive parent) who is otherwise eligible for child care subsidy sends his/her child to another child care provider. {Effective 4/2/05} 3-008.01E Travel Time: A client is allowed Child Care Subsidy to cover a reasonable amount of time for travel between the child care site and the work or training site. 3-008.01F Sleep Time: A client who works through the night is allowed a maximum of eight non-work hours per day for sleep time. 3-009 Fee Obligation: Clients determined eligible as LC, low income sliding fee scale, or TCC (if within income guidelines) must pay a portion of the costs. The client’s monthly fee covers the first dollars of payment, regardless of when service begins or ends. The Department pays the balance up to the agreed upon amount.