OKDHS - OAC 340:50-5-97. Voucher-authorized child care for Employment and Training (E&T) activities

340:50-5-97. Voucher-authorized child care for Employment and Training (E&T) activities

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Revised 6-1-09

Eligible food benefit recipients who live in a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) human services center boundary may receive voucher-authorized child care for E&T activities if child care services are necessary for the parent or caretaker to participate in the E&T activities. Participants are eligible for a maximum of 12 full-time days or 24 part-time days in an eight-week period per child. • 1

(1) Child care services are available whether the parent or caretaker is a required or voluntary participant.
(2) In two-parent or two-caretaker families, both parents may participate in E&T activities simultaneously and receive voucher-authorized child care unless one parent or caretaker has been exempted to care for a child(ren) under six years of age.
(3) Child care services are only purchased from licensed and contracted out-of-home child care facilities.
(4) SNAP E&T participants are predetermined eligible for voucher-authorized child care and are approved with a zero family share co-payment.
(5) At the end of each calendar month, the client submits to the E&T worker a completed Form 08FB022E, Job Search Plan. • 2
(6) An overpayment is written for any voucher-authorized child care used by the client for which he or she was not eligible. • 3
(7) The Family Support Services Division (FSSD) SNAP Section monitors a random selection of cases quarterly to ensure the integrity of the program.

INSTRUCTIONS TO STAFF 340:50-5-97

Revised 6-1-09

1.   See OAC 340:50-5-88 for authorized employment and training (E&T) activities. There is no limit to the number of times food benefit voucher-authorized child care may be authorized, but workers are expected to use prudent judgment. The food benefit E&T worker is responsible for:

(1) completing the child care application with the client;

(2) authorizing E&T child care by completing and giving Forms 08FB024E, Dear Day Care Operator letter for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training; Form 08FB025E, Authorization for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) E&T Day Care Services; and 08FB026E, Service Attendance Claim Record, to the E&T participant. An authorization is not entered in the Auth. Daycare tab for this type approval;

(3) maintaining the service case for the duration of the authorized child care for food benefit E&T activities;

(4) referring the non-PA food benefit recipient to the appropriate worker when other services are requested or needed;

(5) closing the service case at the completion of E&T activities for which child care is needed or transferring the case to a worker after E&T is secured;

(6) submitting any established overpayment to the Family Support Services (FSSD) Benefit Integrity and Recovery Section; and

(7) advising the FSSD SNAP Section of all voucher-authorized child care.

2.   This is a written log of activities and dates which justifies the need for child care.

3.   The overpayment is sent to FSSD Benefit Integrity and Recovery Section. See OAC 340:50-15-1 for more information regarding overpayments.

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