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Situation 2: Parents who are applying for child care who are residing in the same home must apply for child care assistance as one household. Parents who reside in the same home and attempt to apply for child care as a separate household unit for the same children may be considered to be misrepresenting themselves for the purpose of obtaining child care and may be terminated as such as determined by the Program Manager, their designee or the Office of Inspector General.

Situation 3: Applicant applies when the parents are not in the same household and the primary parent applies for child care in their name alone and exceeds income or is otherwise determined not eligible, the absent parent that does not have primary custody will not be allowed to apply for child care and may be considered to be misrepresenting themselves for the purpose of obtaining child care and may be terminated as such as determined by the Program Manager, their designee or the Office of Inspector General.

Situation 4: Parents of the same child(ren) that are divorced or otherwise no longer together, that apply for child care for the same children in two separate households for the purpose of obtaining child care by:

• increasing their family size in order to increase their chance for income eligibility. • both parents apply because they have joint custody, • both parents apply in order to include more children in their family size to increase chances of eligibility

Regardless of joint custody (50/50) situations, only one parent may apply for scholarships. If custody changes from one parent to another legal custody paperwork must be submitted. Services would then be stopped under the original parent that applied and moved to the parent that has assumed primary custody. Intentionally applying under this situation will result in denial or termination of services and will be referred to the Office of the Inspector General.