Overview

1. Program intent
2. Program description
3. Partnership with Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies
4. Unions and training funds
5. The case manager's role in child care

Application Process and Verification Requirements

1. Intent
2. Application process for ERDC (not transitioning from TANF) and Reservation List information
3. Transitioning from TANF to ERDC
4. Verification requirements
5. Approving the ERDC application
6. Denying the ERDC application

Determination Groups

1. Who is included in the household
2. Who is included in the filing group
3. Who is included in the benefit group
4. Concurrent TANF/ERDC benefit group membership

Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements

1. Residency
2. Citizen/alien status of child
3. Age of children
4. Child care need
5. Caretaker/relationship
6. Copay requirement; ERDC
7. Listable provider
8. Immunization requirements

Prospective Eligibility and Budgeting Income

1. Intent and overview
2. Certification periods with CRS and SRS
3. Processing the Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) Re-Application and Food Stamp (FS) Application (DHS 7476) and the Interim Change Report for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) (DHS 825)
4. Prospective budgeting for ERDC
5. Self-employment income for ERDC
6. ERDC certification period lengths and coding with SRS
7. Reporting requirements and changes
8. ERDC Income Quick-Reference Chart

Child Care Need, Copay and Provider Rates

1. Intent
2. Child care need; requirement to be employed or in Self-Sufficiency activities
3. Child care need; number of allowable child care hours
4. Child care need; authorizing a higher limit for extra hours
5. Child care need; billing for absent days
6. Child care need; older children and children with special needs
7. Child care need; supplementing for very high needs
8. Child care need; copay less than DHS payment rate
9. Copay requirement; intent
10. Requirement to pay copay or make satisfactory arrangements
11. Determining when payment arrangements are satisfactory
12. Determining the copay
13. Provider rate limits; intent
14. Provider rate limits; standard, enhanced and licensed
15. Provider rate limits; qualifying for the enhanced rate
16. Provider rate limits; hourly, part-time monthly and full-time monthly rates
17. Provider rate limits; JOBS exceptions to the hourly billing requirement
18. Provider rate limits; age and special needs categories
19. Provider rate limits; types of child care providers
20. Provider rate limits; child care rate charts

Child Care Provider Requirements

1. Listing and provider eligibility requirements; intent
2. Listing; program requirements
3. Listing; home/facility health and safety requirements
4. Listing; required orientation for license-exempt providers
5. Provider health and safety requirements
6. Child care provider background check; intent
7. Persons subject to records checks
8. Potentially disqualifying criminal history
9. Provider-requested review; criminal history disqualification
10. Disqualifying child protective services history
11. Provider-requested review of a CPS disqualification
12. Denial notifications
13. Child care provider hearings; overview
14. Hearings on provider overpayments
15. Hearings on denial of provider eligibility

Payment Process

1. Child care payment general provisions
2. JOBS Plus and ERDC Child Care Billings (CCBs)
3. The JCCB - JOBS Child Care Billing
4. Payments for employed TANF clients participating in JOBS
5. Branch-authorized child care payments
6. Billing form time limits
7. Canceling and reissuing Child Care Billings (CCBs)
8. Canceling and reissuing JOBS Child Care Billings (JCCBs)

Child Care Overpayments

1. Child care overpayment recovery; intent
2. When an overpayment occurs
3. Types of overpayments
4. Determining the amount of the overpayment
5. Establishing IPV claims
6. Disqualification for IPV

Miscellaneous

1. JOBS Plus child care
2. Head Start contracts
3. Oregon Program of Quality (OPQ)

Worker Guide CC-1: Child Care Program Forms
Worker Guide CC-2: Changes in Programs, Providers and ERDC Filing Groups
Worker Guide CC-3: Listing Child Care Providers for Payment
Worker Guide CC-4: ERDC Payments to Multiple Providers
Worker Guide CC-5: Processing Unmet Copays
Worker Guide CC-6: Provider Confidentiality
Worker Guide CC-7: ERDC Eligibility Guide
Worker Guide CC-8: JCCB Guide (pdf) (TBD)
Worker Guide CC-9: ERDC SRS Guide