RSA He-C 6910.03 - Definitions
(a) "Applicant" means an individual who has a
biological child, adoptive child, or is a foster parent, stepparent, legal
guardian, or caretaker relative to a child, who applies for child care
scholarship.
(b) "Assistance group"
means the individuals who are residing in the same household, whose needs and
income are considered and combined together when determining eligibility and
the amount of financial assistance for child care scholarship.
(c) "Authorized service level" means
full-time, half-time, or part-time service level based on the number of hours
of child care per week needed for the parent to participate in an approved
employment-related activity, plus commute time, pursuant to
He-C
6910.07(m).
(d) "Caretaker relative" means a specified
relative as defined in
RSA
167:78, III, namely, "a
specified relative, other than a parent, who provides care and parental control
to a dependent child."
(e) "Child
care" means the act of providing supervision, food, activity, and rest for a
child, by someone other than the child's parent, caretaker relative, or legal
guardian, for any portion of the day in preparing for, securing, or maintaining
employment or employment-related education or training.
(f) "Child care scholarship" means payment to
a provider of child care services on behalf of a family who meets all of the
eligibility criteria in He-C 6910.
(g) "Child experiencing a disability or
significant special need" means a child, under 18 years of age, who has a
verified medical, physical, developmental, educational, or emotional disability
or significant special need, as confirmed by
He-C
6910.09(j), requiring additional
funds for accommodation or classroom adaptation in the child care
setting.
(h) "Children experiencing
homelessness" means children who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
residence, as described in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987,
as reauthorized in 2015, which includes:
(1)
Children who are:
a. Sharing the housing of
other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar
reason;
b. Living in motels,
hotels, manufactured housing communities, or camping grounds due to the lack of
adequate alternative accommodations;
c. Living in emergency or transitional
shelters; or
d. Abandoned in
hospitals;
(2) Children
who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not
designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human
beings;
(3) Children who are living
in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or
train stations, or similar setting; or
(4) Migratory children as such term is
defined in section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1995
who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children
are living in circumstances described in (1)-(3) above.
(i) "Collateral Contact" means a conversation
by telephone or email with an individual who can verify the applicant's income
and unearned income.
(j) "Commute
time" means one hour for each day in a week during which the parent travels for
active participation to and from an employment-related activity, as described
in He-C
6910.07(f).
(k) "Continued assistance" means a period of
continued eligibility for up to 92 calendar days following the termination of
an approved employment-related activity as described in
He-C
6910.07(f)(1), (3)-(6) to allow a
parent to engage in another approved employment-related activity.
(l) "Cost share" means a DHHS-determined
portion of the standard weekly rate charged as a fee to parents, for child care
services provided, based on family size and income, pursuant to
He-C
6910.18.
(m) "Department" or "DHHS" means the
department of health and human services for the state of New
Hampshire.
(n) "District office
(DO)" means one of the New Hampshire regional offices where families can apply
for child care scholarship provided by DHHS.
(o) "Eligibility period" means the time for
which a family is determined eligible to receive child care
scholarship.
(p) "Employment-related
activities" means participation in an approved activity that is designed to
assist parents to enter, re-enter, or remain in the workforce, as described in
He-C
6910.07(f).
(q) "Enrolled child care provider" means a
child care provider who has met the qualifications and requirements found in
He-C 6914 and is authorized to receive payment from DHHS for child care
services provided. The term includes the definition of "registered provider" as
used in RSA
170-E:6-a, and "provider".
(r) "Expedited child care" means an
accelerated eligibility determination for child care scholarship, utilizing an
enrolled child care provider as defined in (p) above, for any applicant who
meets the definition of homelessness in section 725(2) of the McKinney-Vento
Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, as reauthorized in 2015.
(s) "Family" means the children and adults
who reside in the same household and who have a birth, foster, step, adoptive,
legal guardianship, or caretaker relative relationship.
(t) "Family assistance program recipient"
means an individual receiving financial assistance under the family assistance
program, pursuant to RSA 167:84.
(t) "Family cap amount" means the maximum
cost share amount for the eligibility period, determined at initial eligibility
or at redetermination, pursuant to
He-C
6910.18.
(v) "Federal poverty guidelines (FPG)" means
poverty guidelines, published annually in the Federal Register by the secretary
of the United States (US) department of health and human services, which are
used as an eligibility criterion for community services block grant
programs.
(w) "Foster parent" means
an individual who has a license or permit for foster family care, pursuant to
He-C 6446.
(x) "Fraud" means "fraud"
as defined in RSA
167:58, IV.
(y) "Full-time" means the parent(s)
participates in an approved employment-related activity, as described in
He-C
6910.07(f), for greater than 30 hours
per week.
(z) "Full-time override"
means a system change from half-time, as defined in (aa) below, to full-time,
as defined in (y) above, for eligible children 79 months of age or older whose
parent(s) participates in an approved employment-related activity full-time,
during school vacations, and summer vacation.
(aa) "Half-time" means the parent(s)
participates in an approved employment-related activity, as described in
He-C
6910.07(f), for greater than 15 hours
and less than or equal to 30 hours per week.
(ab) "Job search" means a 92-calendar day
period granted at initial eligibility or redetermination, during which a parent
is actively seeking employment or another employment-related activity, as
described in He-C
6910.07(f).
(ac) "Legal guardian" means an individual who
is given legal authority by a court and charged with the duty to provide care,
custody, and supervision of a child.
(ad) "Licensed" means the child care provider
has been issued a child care license to operate by the commissioner of DHHS, in
accordance with RSA 170-E, or has been issued a license to legally operate as a
child care provider in accordance with the child care licensing requirements of
a state neighboring New Hampshire.
(ae) "Licensed professional" means one of the
following: attending physician, physician's assistant, advance practice
registered nurse, licensed mental health professional, licensed behavioral
health professional, licensed alcohol and drug counselor, certified recovery
support worker, or board certified psychologist.
(af) "License-exempt" means a child care
provider is not required to be licensed, in accordance with RSA 170-E:3, I (a),
(b), (c), (f), (g), and (h), or is not required to be licensed, but can legally
operate as a child care provider in accordance with the regulations of a state
neighboring New Hampshire.
(ag)
"McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act" means the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act, 42 USC
11301 (1987), as reauthorized in
2015.
(ah) "Monthly gross income"
means total monthly monies received before taxes and other deductions are
applied.
(ai) "NHEP participant"
means an individual who is enrolled in the New Hampshire employment program
(NHEP) work program and is receiving TANF financial assistance.
(aj) "New Hampshire employment program
(NHEP)" means the program administered by DHHS, in accordance with
RSA
167:78 through
RSA
167:92.
(ak) "Notification" means a written, printed,
or electronic document that advises:
(1)
Families of:
a. The results of eligibility
determinations; and
b. Other
changes in child care scholarship; or
(2) Providers of:
a. Changes to a family's child care
scholarship, as applicable;
b. The
maintenance of the provider's enrollment status; and
c. Other information related to the
provider's compliance with these rules.
(al) "Parent" means an individual who has a
birth, adoptive, or stepparent relationship to a child, a foster parent as
defined in (w) above, a legal guardian as defined in (ac) above, or a caretaker
relative as defined in (d) above.
(am) "Parent with a disability" means a
parent who is unable to participate in employment-related activities or unable
to care for and supervise their child because of a verified physical or mental
condition, disease, or a combination of these conditions.
(an) "Part-time" means the parent(s)
participates in an approved employment-related activity, as described in
He-C
6910.07(f), for one hour to less than
or equal to 15 hours per week.
(ao)
"Recipient" means a member of a family, who meets eligibility requirements for
child care scholarship from DHHS, pursuant to He-C 6910.
(ap) "Redetermination" means an annually
scheduled review of an assistance group's eligibility for child care
scholarship and includes verification of all aspects of eligibility, pursuant
to He-C
6910.15.
(aq) "Satisfactory progress" means meeting
the minimum standards set by an organization, an agency, or an educational or
training facility, which measures the participant's:
(1) Proficiency level in an activity;
and
(2) Ability to complete the
activity in a timely manner.
(ar) "Self-employed" means an individual who
earns income directly from their own business, trade, or profession, rather
than a specified salary or wages from an employer.
(as) "Standard weekly rate" means a
DHHS-determined rate used to calculate child care scholarship payments to
enrolled child care providers and cost share amounts for families.
(at) "State median income (SMI)" means an
annual income figure calculated by the United States Census Bureau representing
the point in which there are as many families earning more than a specific
amount as there are earning less than that amount.
(au) "Temporary assistance to needy families
(TANF)", as defined in
He-W
601.04, means the financial and medical assistance
provided under the New Hampshire employment program (NHEP), family assistance
program (FAP), families with older children (FWOC) program, and the interim
disabled parent (IDP) program.
(av)
"Termination" means the discontinuance of child care scholarship received by an
assistance group when the conditions of eligibility for receipt of the
assistance are no longer met.
(aw)
"Waitlist" means a prioritized list of children determined eligible for child
care scholarship who are waiting for funding to become available to receive
child care scholarship.
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