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132 Initial Hourly Amount: $847.90 per month ($6.95 per hour x 122 hours per month) Agency Ceiling: $1,057.69 per month Provider’s weekly price: $325 Subtract AmeriCorps subsidy: $200 Discounted Price: $325-$200 = $125 (Entered as Override (Discount) weekly amount) Monthly discounted provider price: $543.52

Capped Subsidy (before copay): $543.52

Example 6: Because Pa has two (2) children enrolled in Alice’s Wonderland Child Care, the child care provider gives Pa a 50% discount on her Parent Share for the second child. After the Wisconsin Shares subsidy has been paid for her second child, Pa’s outstanding balance is $150. The provider gives her a 50% discount on this Parent Share leaving $75. Since the provider price discount is only applied to the Parent Share, it must not be entered for CSAW to use in the Wisconsin Shares subsidy calculation.

This section last updated 12/1/2022

Section 16.5 Refusal to Authorize to a Provider The local agency may refuse to issue an authorization to a provider if: • The agency worker has verified that the provider currently has 2.5 or more authorizations per regulated slot • A child care provider has a pending criminal charge alleging that they have committed a serious crime or have been convicted of committing a serious crime • The child care provider has been convicted or is charged with a crime for which the offense substantially relates to the care of children; or the department or local agency determines that the offense substantially relates to the operation of a business • The department or local agency reasonably suspects that the person has violated any provision under the Wisconsin Shares program • More than 40 percent of all children (including non-Shares children) enrolled at a specific location are children of the provider’s employees or children who live with the provider’s employees, and the provider fails to restore compliance within six (6) weeks after the Department or local agency determines that the provider has fallen below the required 60 percent threshold of qualifying children

Authorizations cannot be written unless: • The child care provider submits their prices to the local agency • The child care need matches the provider’s hours of operation • The criteria in Chapter 14 Provider Requirements are met