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Department
of Human Services Child Care
Certificate Program Online Policy Manual Families First Child Care |
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3.1 |
CHILD CARE DISREGARD OPTION |
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A FF participant has one of two options in
handling the family’s child care expenses.
Either: ·
The child
care assistance will be paid by DHS through a certificate; or ·
The FF
participant may pay her own child care expenses and take a standard budget
deduction for the cost of child care from her earnings to make her eligible
for cash assistance. The budget
“disregard” is set at the following amounts per child: - $200.00 per month for children under two
years of age. - $175.00 per month for children two years of
age and older. The disregard cannot be given in the same month that a child care
subsidy payment is paid by a certificate.
A disregard is considered taken regardless if all a parent’s children
were in care or not during the period. |
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