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To allow for continued child care services, the child care eligibility staff will: • Review the TANF/SNAP database to ensure that the client’s TANF benefit case has been closed appropriately for a transitional reason code. • Determine the effective date of closure in the TANF/SNAP database and pick up transitional child care services with no break in service. Note: Child care services will be authorized for 12 months (52 weeks) of child care. • Review the Child Care Scholarship Program database to ensure that the client is currently receiving TANF child care. If the TANF participant is not receiving TANF child care, a DSS Form 3791, Child Care Scholarship Program Application, must be completed. • Use information from the TANF/SNAP database, SCOSA or On-base to update the Child Care Scholarship Program database, as appropriate, with a current address, family composition, family size, employer information, and income. • Determine income using the current wage information in TANF/SNAP. Verify that the income does not exceed the child care income standards. • Complete a new child care eligibility worksheet (DSS Form 37110) and attach the following TANF/SNAP screens from CHIP: • Client Profile Page • Case Profile Page 2 • Household Summary Page 1 and 2 • Notice History Screen • Update the information into the Child Care Scholarship Program database for the first year of TCC and obtain an application number. • Call the client and the provider to make them aware of the changes such as the category change, the copay, number of weeks approved, etc. NOTE: If during the review of the TCC case, the seamless TCC case is denied, the TCC worker will complete a termination according to policy for the case so that a termination notice will go to the client and provider. • There is no co-pay for this category of care.