Limitation of Child Care Scholarship in Certain Situations

(a) For families for which a job search activity is approved for one or more parents the following shall apply:

(1) The parent shall be allowed a maximum of 92 calendar days of child care scholarship in order to engage in job search or engage in job search and seek housing in the same week;

(2) Child care scholarship shall terminate at the end of 92 calendar days if the parent or parents in job search have not engaged in one of the activities in He-C 6910.07 (f),(1),(3)-(6);

(3) The parent shall engage in employment, an employment-related training or educational program, NHEP, basic education, or be participating in a mental health or substance misuse treatment program as a recipient of NHEP or FAP before a new job search period shall be granted as a new activity; or

(4) Six months shall lapse between job search activities;

(b) If both parents are engaged in a job search, but began their job searches on different dates, child care scholarship shall terminate upon the 92nd calendar day of the job search period that is reached first, if one or both parents have not engaged in one of the activities in He-C 6910.07(f), (1), (3)-(6) during the job search;

(d) A parent who is not receiving TANF financial assistance shall be eligible for child care scholarship during the training program or course of study when the training or educational program or course of study:

(1) Prepares the parent for employment;

(2) Leads to a degree or certificate in a specific field of employment;

(3) Does not exceed 104 weeks of child care scholarship payment in a lifetime, except that if the 104-week lifetime limit is reached during the eligibility period, the family shall remain eligible under training or education until the next redetermination, at which time each parent will be required to engage in another approved activity, as listed in He-C 6910.07(f), (1), (2), (5), or (6);

(4) Is not a single course apart from a degree or certificate program; and

(5) The program leads to a degree or certificate at the associate’s level or lower;

(e) For the parent receiving TANF financial assistance and not participating in the NHEP work program, the training or educational program:

(1) Shall comply with the requirements in (d)(1)- (4) above; and

(2) Could result in a degree or certificate at the associate’s or bachelor’s level;

(f) Families in which a parent is engaged in basic and alternative educational activities, which lead to a high school diploma or equivalent, or increase literacy levels, shall not be subject to the 104-week lifetime limit for training and educational programs, contingent upon the parent’s ongoing satisfactory progress as defined in He-C 6910.03(aq) in one of the following programs:

(1) High school diploma program;

(2) High School Equivalency Testing (HiSET) program;

(3) Remedial or basic education program; or

(4) English as a second language program;

(g) Families who are participating in work-study or internship and are not receiving TANF financial assistance shall:

(1) Be considered to be employed; and

(2) Have any income received from the work-study or internship counted as part of the assistance group’s monthly gross earned income in the determination of assistance, in accordance with He-C 6910.09(g);

(h) DHHS shall not pay child care scholarship when a parent is participating in a pre-requisite course in preparation for a post-secondary educational or training program, except in the case of a nursing program, in which case the prerequisite courses shall be limited to 2, and shall count towards the 104-week lifetime limit;

(i) If the provider’s link with a specific child is terminated due to non-payment for the dates of child care services rendered within the past 60 days, DHHS shall send notification informing the parent of the termination of the provider’s link between the child and the provider;

(j) When the provider has not billed for services rendered within the past 60 days, the provider shall contact BCDHSC before the provider’s link with the child is reinstated; and

(k) If the provider fails to comply with (j) above, the provider’s link between the child and the provider shall remain terminated.

Source. #7723, eff 7-1-02 (from He-C 6910.10); (See Revision Note at part heading for He-C 6910) #9474, eff 6-29-09; ss by #9770-A, eff 8-25-10; ss by #10120, eff 5-7-12; amd by #10565, eff 4-4-14; ss by #12221, eff 7-10-17 (from He-c 6910.12) ; ss by #13063, eff 7-1-20; ss by #13799, eff 10-28-23; ss by #13951, eff 4-30-24