Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Three-month extended eligibility period.
Extended eligibility is a period of continued eligibility for a
family during the 12-month eligibility period as allowed by Minnesota Statutes,
section
119B.105.
A family may enter extended eligibility under the circumstances described in
Minnesota Statutes, section
119B.105,
subdivision 1, paragraph (b), and under the following circumstances.
A. An MFIP or DWP participant has a permanent
end to all employment plan activities and is not participating in another
authorized activity.
B. An MFIP or
DWP participant has been sanctioned for not participating in all employment
plan activities and is not participating in authorized activities outside of an
employment plan.
C. A parentally
responsible individual's unable to care status has expired in a two-parent
household.
Subp. 2.
Permanent and temporary ends of authorized activity.
A. If a parentally responsible individual
reports an end to the parentally responsible individual's authorized activity,
a CCAP agency must consider the end of the authorized activity permanent unless
the family reports that the end is temporary. The extended eligibility period
begins on the day that the authorized activity permanently ends and continues
for up to three months or until a family's redetermination, whichever occurs
first.
B. If a parentally
responsible individual has a temporary end to an authorized activity that
becomes a permanent end, the family must report the change to a CCAP agency
under Minnesota Statutes, section
256P.07,
subdivision 6, paragraph (a), clause (2). The extended eligibility period
begins on the date that the change becomes permanent.
C. If a parentally responsible individual has
more than one authorized activity, extended eligibility is available to the
family when the family reports that all authorized activities ended
permanently.
Subp. 3.
Requirements at end of extended eligibility.
A. At the end of the extended eligibility
period, the parentally responsible individual must participate in an authorized
activity for eligibility to continue until the next redetermination according
to the following criteria:
(1) if employment
is the authorized activity of a parentally responsible individual who is
eligible under part
3400.0060 or
3400.0090, or of a parentally
responsible individual who is eligible under part
3400.0080 without an employment
plan, the parentally responsible individual does not have to meet minimum work
requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section
119B.10,
until redetermination;
(2) if
education is the authorized activity of a parentally responsible individual who
is eligible under part
3400.0060 or
3400.0090, the education activity
must meet the criteria in the CCAP agency's child care fund plan; or
(3) if the parentally responsible individual
is eligible under part
3400.0080 and has an employment
plan, the individual must be participating in an authorized activity in the
individual's employment plan.
B. If the parentally responsible individual
is not participating in an authorized activity at the end of the extended
eligibility period, a CCAP agency must end the family's eligibility.
C. If a parentally responsible individual in
a two-parent household entered extended eligibility because the individual's
unable to care status under part
3400.0040, subpart 5, expired and
the parentally responsible individual has not re-verified the individual's
unable to care status or started participating in an authorized activity by the
end of the individual's extended eligibility period, a CCAP agency must end the
family's eligibility.
Subp.
4.
Extended eligibility at application or redetermination.
A parentally responsible individual is not eligible for
extended eligibility when the parentally responsible individual does not have
an authorized activity under Minnesota Statutes, section
119B.10,
on the application date or redetermination due date. A parentally responsible
individual who meets the eligibility requirements at application under part
3400.0040 or at redetermination
under part
3400.0180 and experiences a
permanent end to the parentally responsible individual's authorized activity
after the application date or redetermination due date is eligible for extended
eligibility. A family that is eligible under part
3400.0080 or
3400.0090 is not eligible for
extended eligibility during the retroactive periods in Minnesota Statutes,
sections
119B.09,
subdivision 7, and 119B.13, subdivision 6, paragraph (c).
Subp. 5.
New authorizations during
extended eligibility period.
If a child without an authorization for child care assistance
requires child care during an extended eligibility period, a CCAP agency must
authorize child care for the child based on the number of child care hours that
the CCAP agency authorized for other children in the child's household. If a
CCAP agency has not authorized child care of any other children in the
household, the CCAP agency must authorize child care for the child based on the
number of child care hours for which the family was eligible prior to the
beginning of the extended eligibility period.
Subp. 6.
New authorized activity during
extended eligibility period.
A. If a
parentally responsible individual reports that the parentally responsible
individual began a new authorized activity prior to the end of the parentally
responsible individual's extended eligibility period, the family moves out of
extended eligibility and continues to be eligible until the next
redetermination according to the following criteria:
(1) if employment is the authorized activity
of a parentally responsible individual who is eligible under part
3400.0060 or
3400.0090, or of a parentally
responsible individual who is eligible under part
3400.0080 without an employment
plan, the parentally responsible individual does not have to meet minimum work
requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section
119B.10,
until redetermination;
(2) if
education is the authorized activity of a parentally responsible individual who
is eligible under part
3400.0060 or
3400.0090, the individual's
authorized activity must meet the criteria in the CCAP agency's child care fund
plan; or
(3) if the parentally
responsible individual is eligible under part
3400.0080 and has an employment
plan, the individual must be participating in an authorized activity in the
individual's employment plan.
B. If a parentally responsible individual
began a new authorized activity prior to the end of the extended eligibility
period and does not report the new authorized activity, authorizations are
approvable retroactively from the date that the extended eligibility period
ended, as long as the parentally responsible individual reports the new
authorized activity within 90 days after eligibility ended and the parentally
responsible individual met all eligibility requirements during the time period
after the case closed. A CCAP agency must authorize child care through the end
of the 12-month eligibility period as provided by part
3400.0110, subpart 3, and
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 119B.
