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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.

013.01 QUALIFICATION OF NEED REQUIREMENTS. If more than one parent or usual caretaker is included in the family size, each adult must meet the qualification of need requirements. 013.02 VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS. Participation in Americorp Vista and other volunteer programs are not qualifying needs. 013.03 LIMIT ON QUALIFICATION OF NEEDED HOURS. There are weekly and daily limits on the hours of child care subsidy that will be approved. 013.03(A) WEEKLY LIMIT. A recipient is limited to a maximum of sixty hours of Child Care Subsidy per week. A week is defined as the seven day period from Sunday through Saturday. 013.03(B) DAILY LIMIT. Recipients may receive a maximum of eighteen hours of subsidized care in a twenty four hour period. This must comply with the sixty hour a week limit. 013.04 QUALIFYING FOR CHILD CARE TO ATTEND CLASSES. A recipient who is attending secondary education or training is allowed two hours per week of child care for each credit hour. Study time beyond the scheduled hours are not allowed. Recipients attending high school or equivalent are allowed hours reflective of their school schedule. A recipient taking on-line classes is allowed one hour per credit hour. 013.04(A) VERIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT. Applicants and recipients must provide verification of enrollment in school or training at the time of application and redetermination. 013.05 QUALIFYING FOR CHILD CARE FOR EMPLOYMENT. If the individual is requesting child care for employment, the employment must have the potential to allow the individual to achieve or maintain economic self- sufficiency. 013.05(A) EMPLOYMENT AS CHILD CARE PROVIDER. A child care provider is not eligible to receive subsidy to provide child care to the provider’s child(ren), this includes owners and directors of child care centers. The Department will not pay for providers to send their own children to another provider for care. This does not apply to a foster parent, subsidized guardian, or subsidized adoptive parent who is also a child care provider and sends his/her child to another child care provider. Page 16 of 41