Basic Eligibility Alignment 400-28-20-40

(New 6/1/2024 ML #3819)

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CCAP Workforce Benefit

 

Households who have at least one caretaker participating in employment as an employee in a ND licensed or ND tribally licensed or registered child care setting can be eligible for CCAP with a waived co-payment. Households applying for CCAP who have verified employment in a licensed or certified child care program are eligible to have all household income excluded, if they meet all other eligibility requirements. In households with two caretakers, the second caretaker does not need to be in an allowable activity.

 

Child Care employees must work at least 25 hours per week at a ND licensed child care program or ND tribally licensed program. The employee must have their employer complete a SFN 354, which will serve as verification of their employment. Providers who are Approved Relatives, Self-Declared, or out-of-state licensed are not eligible to have employees who would qualify. Employees cannot care for their own children.

 

Owners of a licensed child care program do not qualify for the CCAP Workforce Benefit, unless their children attend a different licensed child care program.

 

At the time employment ends, or the license for the child care program ends, it must be reported within 5 days by the household or the employer. Income will no longer be waived for these households, and co-payments will be determined the month following the month of employment ending. If there is no other known allowable activity the household must be allowed three months of continued assistance. The three months of continued assistance begins in the month following the month of the employment ending. CCAP will be closed for any household with monthly gross income, minus allowable deductions over 85% SMI for the household size.

 

Example 1: A two caretaker household applies for CCAP in July. An SFN 354 is turned in for one caretaker. The other caretaker is not in an allowable activity. The SFN 354 is reviewed and it is determined that one caretaker is employed with a ND licensed child care program with 30 hours a week. CCAP is approved for an eligibility period of 18 months from July through December of the next year.

 

Example 2: A two caretaker household applies for CCAP in July. An SFN 354 is turned in for one caretaker. The other caretaker is employed and provides income verification. The SFN 354 is reviewed and it is determined that this caretaker is only employed for 20 hours per week. The household must meet all CCAP eligibility requirements as they do not meet the minimum work hour requirement for the CCAP Workforce Benefit.

 

Example 3: A household is approved under the CCAP Workforce Benefit for an eligibility period of 18 months from July through December of the next year. In October it is reported that the child care program's license has ended October 17th. Starting November, income is evaluated and it is determined the household is over 85% SMI. The CCAP case closes October 31.

 

Example 4: A household is approved under the CCAP Workforce Benefit for an eligibility period of 18 months from July through December of the next year. In February the household reports that they are no longer employed with the child care program. The household will be allowed three full months of activity search beginning March.