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care or families who need care for children with special needs or medical conditions (CCDF State Plan). FNI providers related to the child may be approved to provide care; however, the relationship must be verified by a client statement. If relationship status is questionable, the child care worker will require verification through birth certificates, marriage license, or other legal documents. The provider must be related to the child in one of the following ways: An aunt or uncle, first generation only, sibling, grandparent or great-grandparent, all of whom do not reside in the same household as the child. Cousins or other relations not previously listed are not considered related for the purpose of child care. NOTE: The Child Care Scholarship Program will not pay for child care services to any member of the household in which the child resides. The same procedures for FFN providers who are providing care in their home (FNO) apply to FNI providers (who provide care in the child’s home). See Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care (FFN) for specific criteria.
5.7.6 OUT-OF-STATE CHILD CARE PROVIDERS The Child Care Scholarship Program may enroll and reimburse regulated center-based, group or family child care providers that operate outside the state of South Carolina. Primarily, out-of-state providers are enrolled to allow payment of child care costs for children in Child Protective Services (CPS) or Foster Care (FC) who are in the custody of SCDSS, but have been placed with a caretaker or relative who resides outside of South Carolina. However, this option can be used for all child care categories. Border state providers (Georgia and North Carolina) may request enrollment into the Child Care Scholarship Program and may continue to be enrolled for the agreement period and serve any Child Care Scholarship Program client who chooses them as a provider. NOTE: Out of state Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) providers will be approved only for child protective service and foster care cases and only with prior approval of the arrangement by the designated program staff and human service worker.