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120 • Children who are truant • Children between the ages of 6 and 18 who are required to be enrolled in school per the Department of Public Instruction and are not enrolled • Children who are suspended from school • Children who are expelled and disenrolled
Parents can self-declare the additional hours needed when school is closed. If the parent does not know the exact number of hours needed, agency workers should enter the daily default amount of 10 hours. The parent’s need for 10 hours does not need to be verified.
Parents in an Approved Activity Search Period (ACTS) or Temporary Break Period (TBRK) are not eligible for additional child care hours, including additional school closed hours (see 17.2.1).
The school closed hours are subject to the same 90-day removal policy as all other funds (see 18.7). If the parent receives additional subsidy hours for school closures and has not expended all the funds within 90 calendar days, the funds will age off and no longer be available to the parent.
This section last updated 7/1/2026
Section 16.1.1.5 Gaps Between Approved Activities When a gap between approved activities occurs on the same day, the gap must be included in the authorized hours if the parent needs care during the gap time and the request is reasonable.
In a two-parent household, gap time cannot be approved for times when the second parent is available to care for the child.
When determining whether a request is reasonable, agency workers must consider the following factors: • Home Time: Picking up the child and taking them home between the approved activities would cause the parent and child to be home for an unreasonably short period • Child Insufficient Sleep: Picking up the child would cause the child to have fewer than eight (8) hours of potential sleep time • Travel Greater than Activities: The number of activity hours for the first and the second activities are less than or equal to the travel time needed (job to child care to home, then home to child care to work)