18 Miss. Code. R. 17-6.2 - Co-Payment Fee

Co-payments are based on the full-time and part-time status, and the child's age. Parents must pay the designated fee once a month to the child care provider, in which his/her child(ren) is enrolled. Co-payments are assigned by MDHS. Providers shall not charge parents co-payment rates that deviate in any way from the co-payment amount issued by MDHS.

Co-payment fees are divided evenly between the number of children receiving services in the family. For example: If the total co-payment is $10 for a family with three (3) children receiving child care services, two (2) children will have a co-payment fee of $3.33 and one (1) child will have a co-payment fee of $3.34.

1) Determining Who Pays a Co-Payment Fee

a. No Co-Payment Fee

i. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients,

ii.Homeless families with no countable income

iii. Any family whose income is at or below the federal poverty line

b. Minimum Co-Payment Fee (For families with incomes above the federal poverty line and who meet the conditions in a-f below will have a co-payment fee that is no more than $10)

c. Transitional Child Care (TCC) recipients,

d. Teen Parents,

e. Children served by the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services (MDCPS),

f. Children served by the Healthy Families Mississippi (HFM) home-visitation program,

g. Parents with a disability who are receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and

h. Children with special needs. If there are other children in the family who are receiving child care services, the monthly co-payment fee shall be $10 or the child's prorated share of the family's co-payment fee, whichever is less.

2) For all other parents, co-payment fees are calculated in CCPS based on family size and income by applying the CCDF Child Care Monthly Co-Payment Fee Scale for Parents.

Notes

18 Miss. Code. R. 17-6.2

45 CFR 98.45(k); Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-2(4); Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-4 Revised: May 2023

Adopted 3/6/2020 Amended 11/1/2021 Amended 5/15/2023