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110 Example 2 (On-call employment): Kris is a nurse and works 36 hours every week. She is also on call every other Saturday. The authorized hours entered in CSAW do not include the Saturday on-call times. If Kris is called into work, she can request additional hours after the days she works for the hours she needed.

Authorizations of 20 weekly hours or less are part-time authorizations; full-time authorizations are more than 20 weekly hours. The weekly approved authorization hours are multiplied by 4.348125 to determine the final monthly authorized hours, which is converted to a part-time or full-time subsidy amount (see 18.5).

Parents with a child care need of more than 50 weekly hours are eligible for an above full-time authorization, which is a full-time subsidy amount with an additional weekly add-on for the hours above 50 weekly hours up to 75 weekly hours.

Education For education, parents must provide the class schedule for all classes with set in- person or online log in times throughout the week. Workers need to collect the schedule to verify the parent’s approved activity (see 7.8) but do not need to enter the schedules into CSAW or document the schedule in case comments.

Authorized hours for education are based on the total number of class hours, as well as any other work experience, clinicals, or school hours where an instructor provides or supervises the parent’s activity. Study time must not be included in the authorized hours unless the parent has a verified learning disability. A learning disability must be verified by the parent’s current or previous educational institution or a medical professional. If the parent has a verified learning disability, the authorization may include study time for a maximum of one (1) hour per week per enrolled credit.

Study time must be included in the authorized hours for parents who are participating in W-2 (see 5.1.3) or Tribal TANF (see 5.1.4) and have study hours included on their Employability Plan (EP) or Individual Self-Sufficiency Plan (ISP).

Authorized hours for self-paced online education are limited to one (1) hour per week per enrolled credit. Additional hours can be authorized if the institution documents that the self-paced course is delivered over an accelerated period with more hours of instruction provided per week. For accelerated programs, the authorized hours can include the weekly hours needed for the parent to complete asynchronous classes (i.e., prerecorded lectures), as well as any other work experience, clinicals, or school hours where an instructor provides or supervises the parent’s activity. Time for homework or other class commitments must not be included in the authorized hours because these are not hours of instruction provided or supervised by an instructor.

Example 3 (Blended learning): Ashley is attending college and has three (3) classes. Class A meets in-person on campus on Tuesday and Thursday. Class B allows students