013 NEED FOR SERVICE.

Child care services for eligible individuals are approved only if each parent or usual caretaker: (A) Is employed; (B) Is actively seeking employment. Each time the recipient loses employment, the recipient is entitled to three months of child care to seek employment. (i) Child care for job search activities cannot be authorized at initial application except when job search is required by a federally funded workforce program; (C) Is participating in an Employment First activity; (D) Requires child care to obtain medical services including physicians’ services, mental health services, and drug and alcoholism treatment; (E) Is enrolled in and regularly attending vocational or educational training to attain a high school or equivalent diploma, an undergraduate degree or certificate, or English as second language classes; (F) Is participating in on the job training; (G) Is incapacitated with a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which prevents the individual from caring for the child(ren) in the home. The incapacity must be evaluated and approved by the Department; or (H) Meets the definition of homeless. Child care may be authorized up to forty hours per week for three months to provide stability to the individual’s child(ren) and to allow the parent(s) or usual caretaker the opportunity to seek out community resources. If the individual is not meeting another need for service by the end of the three months period, the authorization will end.