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1-34 (iv) An E&T participant is not entitled to the dependent care reimbursement if a member of the E&T participant’s SNAP assistance unit provides the dependent care services (d) The child care provider is not considered a State of Wyoming or DFS employee. (e) The child care provider shall complete the prescribed DFS form for child care expenses and return it to the DFS-FO as necessary. (i) The DFS payment amount shall cover and not exceed the actual eligible authorized hours used at the lowest rate of the actual charge, local market rate, or statewide limit. (ii) Payment is not allowed to more than six (6) providers per child within a 12 month period unless good cause has been established by DFS. (f) The State of Wyoming and DFS have no responsibility for unpaid bills for child care fees charged above state rates or for the caretaker’s obligation for the cost of care. (g) The provider has the right to establish the child care rates for his/her facility. (i) The rates charged to those receiving assistance from DFS shall be the same rates as those charged to non-DFS clients. (ii) The provider shall only have part/full day rates. (iii) Providers shall submit any change of their rates to DFS using a prescribed DFS form and a copy of the rate sheet they use for non-DFS clients. (iv) DFS shall use the new rate when the provider submits the new rate more than five (5) working days prior to the effective date of the change. When the new rate is submitted less than five (5) working days prior to the change, the new rate shall be effective five (5) working days after it is received. The new rate applies only to authorizations written after the rate change. (h) When a provider requests an administrative hearing on action taken by the Child Care Licensing Unit, payments may continue during the administrative process, unless there is a substantiated child abuse or neglect case. (i) In order to receive child care assistance payments, legally exempt home providers shall not provide child care for more than ten (10) children under school age in an immediate family unit. The ten (10) child limit for one (1) immediate family unit in the home shall include the provider's own children under school age. In the case of grandparents, the total number of children shall never exceed six (6). (j) In order to receive child care assistance payments, centers supervised by the state, any local government, school district or agency or political subdivision thereof, shall have a ratio of one (1) adult to no more than 30 children, age five (5) and older, or one (1) adult to 20 children, when there are three (3), or more children ages three (3) to four. The maximum group size is 40 children.