CHILD CARE/DAY CARE – QUICK REFERENCE

(Related to Foster Care)

WHAT / FOSTER CARE
MAINTENANCE
REIMBURSABLE
CCWIPS / NOT FOSTER CARE
MAINTENANCE
REIMBURSEABLE / ALTERNATIVE REIMBURSEMENT SOURCES
EMP/DIFFICULTY
OF CARE AS A
MAINTENANCE
PAYMENT / PRIME TIME
CHILD CARE
Foster Child / Child care to provide daily supervision during foster parent’s working hours when foster child is not in school / Foster Care Maintenance Submit as Irregular Payment, Category 40, Code 41
Foster Child / Informal episodic child care for foster child / This is include in the basic Foster Care Maintenance Rate
Foster Child / Child care activities which are deemed a social service, i.e. therapeutic child care / Child care deemed a social service (therapeutic child care) is not foster care reimbursable / If appropriate, consider using a difficulty of care payment (EMP) / Consider using Prime Time child care, if appropriate
Foster Child / Care to facilitate foster parent’s participation in activities within the realm of “ordinary parental duties” / Care to facilitate foster parent’s participation in activities within the realm of “ordinary parental duties” is not foster care maintenance reimbursable
Foster Child / Full time child care – not employment related / Full time child care – not employment related – is not allowable under foster care maintenance / Consider using difficulty of care (EMP) / Consider using Prime Time child care

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CHILD CARE /DAY CARE – QUICK REFERENCE (CONTINUED)

WHAT / FOSTER CARE
MAINTENANCE
REIMBURSABLE
CCWIPS / NOT FOSTER CARE
MAINTENANCE
REIMBURSEABLE / ALTERNATIVE REIMBURSEMENT SOURCES
EMP/DIFFICULTY
OF CARE AS A
MAINTENANCE
PAYMENT / PRIME TIME
CHILD CARE
Foster Parent / Child care during illness of foster parent / Child care during illness of foster parent is within “the realm of ordinary parental duties” and is not foster care maintenance reimbursable
Foster Parent / Child care to allow foster parent to attend mandatory foster parent training
Foster Parent / Attendance at case conferences, team meetings, court hearings, w/o foster child / Foster Care Maintenance Irregular Payment, Category 40, Code 43
Foster Parent / Relief care for foster parents / Relief care is not foster care maintenance reimbursable / If appropriate, initiate a difficulty of care (EMP) payment to address complexities of situation
Foster Parent / Child care to allow foster parents to attend school conferences / Child care reimbursement to allow foster parents to attend school conferences is not allowable under Foster Care Maintenance (This is considered an ordinary parental day.)
Foster Parent / Child care to allow foster parents visit to a foster child temporarily out of the foster home (hospital, camp, etc) / Child care reimbursement to allow foster parents to visit foster child temporarily out of the foster home is not foster care maintenance reimbursable

*For approved foster parent training, child care is an allowable foster parent expenditure. Refer questions to CFS-TC @ 701-777-3442

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