RSA He-C 6910.07 - Non-Financial Eligibility Requirements
(a) To be eligible
for child care scholarship, the child shall be a member of the assistance group
for which the applicant is seeking child care scholarship.
(b) Each child for whom child care
scholarship is requested shall be:
(1) A
resident of the state of New Hampshire, except for children of migrant workers
who are experiencing homelessness because they are living in circumstances as
described in He-C
6910.03(h);
(2) A US citizen or a non-citizen who meets
the criteria for non-citizenship as described in
He-C
6910.09(c)(2);
(3) Less than 13 years of age, except when
the child meets the criteria described in (e) below; and
(4) Linked to only one enrolled
provider.
(c) A child who
turns 13 years of age during the assistance group's eligibility period shall
remain eligible until the assistance group's next redetermination, at which
time eligibility for the child shall end.
(d) A child who is 12 years of age at the
time of application, but who turns 13 years of age prior to the eligibility
period start date, as described in
He-C
6910.10(f), shall not be eligible for
child care scholarship.
(e) A child
age 13 or older shall not be eligible for child care scholarship, except when
the child is experiencing a verified disability or significant special need as
defined in He-C 6910.03(g)
and verified in accordance with
He-C
6910.09(j)(3).
(f) Each applicant parent requesting child
care scholarship shall be engaged in one or more of the following:
(1) Employment where an applicant parent is
receiving any form of earned income or in-kind compensation for their
work;
(2) Job search where an
applicant parent is:
a. In compliance with
NHEP, pursuant to He-W 637.05;
b. Registered with the New Hampshire
department of employment security job match system;
c. In compliance with New Hampshire's
requirements for receipt of unemployment compensation benefits; or
d. Actively seeking employment independently,
as documented by the applicant parent on BCDHSC Form 2693 "New Hampshire Child
Care Scholarship Program Job Search Activity Verification Form," (October
2023), pursuant to He-C
6910.09(q)(4).
(3) A training or educational program which
is preparatory to employment, including an online training or educational
program, subject to the limitations found in
He-C
6910.13(d);
(4) A basic educational activity, as
described in He-C
6910.13(f);
(5) One or more approved NHEP activities
indicated on an NHEP employability plan, as described in He-W 637; or
(6) A mental health treatment program, a
substance misuse treatment program, or both, as a recipient of NHEP or FAP
financial assistance, pursuant to
RSA
167:83,
II(q).
(g) The job search in (f)(2) above, shall be
authorized for up to 92 calendar days. If job search is the only activity the
parent engages in prior to the end of the 92 calendar days, child care
scholarship eligibility shall terminate after the 92 day.
(h) Additional hours towards the family's
service level shall be available to parents participating in an approved
employment-related activity and seeking housing, who are without permanent
housing as defined in section 725(2) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
Act of 1987, as reauthorized in 2015, subject to the verification requirements
of He-C
6910.09(w).
(i) To be eligible for child care scholarship
when both parents reside with the child, the following shall apply:
(1) Both parents shall comply with (f) above;
or
(2) One parent shall comply with
(f) above and the other shall qualify as a parent with a disability in
accordance with He-C
6910.09(k).
(j) Two adults residing in the same
household, regardless of marital status, who share a common child, shall be
counted as one assistance group, along with all other children who have a
biological, foster, step, or adoptive relationship with each other and either
adult.
(k) When an individual is a
license-exempt in-home child care provider as defined in
He-C
6917.03(k), the individual's own
child shall not be eligible for child care scholarship if:
(1) The individual cares for their own child;
or
(2) The individual's child is
cared for by another license-exempt in-home child care provider as defined in
He-C
6917.03(k).
(l) An individual who is a license-exempt
in-home child care provider as defined in
He-C
6917.03(k) shall be eligible to
receive child care scholarship for the care of the individual's own child if
the child attends any of the following types of child care programs:
(1) A licensed family day care home, as
defined in RSA
170-E:2, IV(a);
(2) A licensed family group day care home, as
defined in RSA
170-E:2, IV(b);
(3) A licensed group child day care center,
as defined in RSA
170-E:2, IV(c); or
(4) A license-exempt facility-based program,
as defined in He-C
6916.03(j), unless the child is under
6 years of age, pursuant to
RSA
170-E:2,
XI-a.
(m) A child's authorized service level shall
be based on the number of hours per week child care is needed as determined by:
(1) The number of hours per week the parent
is engaged in an approved employment-related activity; and
(2) The number of hours of commute time per
week, equal to no more than one hour per day multiplied by the number of days
per week that the parent is engaged in an employment-related
activity.
(n) For employed
parents, the numbers of hours per week shall be calculated by taking the
highest amount of hours worked during any week for which the department
averaged the parent's income, pursuant to
He-C
6910.06(h)(1), and rounding up to the
next whole number.
(o) For
self-employed parents, the authorized service level shall be based on the
number of hours per week child care is needed as determined by:
(1) The number of hours the parent reports
for self-employment when the parent has been continuously self-employed for
less than 2 years; or
(2)
Calculating self-employment hours when the individual has been continuously
self-employed for 2 years or more, as follows:
a. Dividing the monthly income as described
in He-C
6910.06(d) by 4.33 weeks to establish
weekly income, dividing this weekly income by the federal minimum wage, and
rounding up to the next whole number in order to establish the average number
of hours of self-employment per week; and
b. The number of hours of commute time per
week equal to one hour per day multiplied by the number of days per week that
the parent is participating in self-employment.
(p) The authorized service level shall be
based on the calculation in (m), (n), and (o) above and applied as follows:
(1) For full-time authorized service level,
the number of hours shall be greater than 30 hours;
(2) For half-time authorized service level,
the number of hours shall be greater than 15 and less than or equal to 30;
or
(3) For part-time authorized
service level, the number of hours shall be between one and less than or equal
to 15 hours.
(q) For
2-parent households eligible to receive child care scholarship, the authorized
service level shall be calculated based upon the lowest number of hours that
either parent participates in an approved employment-related activity, as
described in He-C
6910.07(f).
(r) Child care scholarship shall not be paid
for a child under 6 years of age, when cared for in a license-exempt child care
center program, pursuant to
RSA
170-E:2, XI-a.
(s) A legal guardian or caretaker relative
and the legal guardian or caretaker relative's spouse shall be required to be
engaged in at least one activity described in (f)(1)-(6) above, or one
individual shall comply with (f) above and the other individual shall qualify
as a parent with a disability, in accordance with
He-C
6910.09(k).
(t) An individual registered with a temporary
employment agency shall be considered employed so long as the individual earns
one payment within 10 calendar days of an employment
assignment.
Notes
#7357, eff 9-1-00; ss and moved by #7723, eff 7-1-02 (from He-C 6910.06); (See Revision Note at part heading for He-C 6910) #9474, eff 6-29-09; ss by #10120, eff 5-7-12
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