Absent Days for Illness 400-28-80-25

(Revised 10/1/12 ML #3348)

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Up to 16 hours per calendar month can be allowed for a child who is absent from their child care setting for reasons of illness or while they attend medical appointments if the provider normally requires payment to maintain the spot of a child absent for those reasons.

 

Up to 16 hours per calendar month can be allowed when the caretaker is absent from their allowable activity to take care of the child who is absent from their child care setting because of the child’s illness or to attend the child’s medical appointments and the provider normally requires payment during that absence.

Note: Medical documentation and verification of hours the caretaker was or was not in the allowable activity on the absent days is not needed for absent days unless fraud is suspected.

The days and number of hours per day that the child was absent because of their illness or to attend medical appointments must be listed on the Child Care Billing Report form. The hours a parent was absent from their allowable activity to care for the child are not listed on the form by the parent.