Section 30. Child care programs

Child care subsidy, to the extent of available funding, is provided through the following programs:

1. TANF Child Care Program. Child care subsidy and services are made available to recipients of TANF. TANF child care includes needed care for the TANF capped child. These services are also provided to:

a. A child who receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI), if the parent is on the TANF grant and if the child would have been in the TANF assistance unit were it not for the receipt of SSI, or

b. Children who are not in the TANF assistance unit but who are financially dependent upon the parent who is in the TANF assistance unit.

2. Income eligible child care programs.

a. Transitional child care. Child care subsidy and services are made available to eligible children of former TANF recipients to support parental employment if the TANF case is closed, and they are found income eligible.

b. Head Start child care. Head Start child care subsidy and services are made available to eligible Head Start enrolled children. The program is for extended day and extended year child care beyond times covered by federally funded Head Start core hours.

c. Fee child care. Fee child care subsidy and services are made available to children in eligible low income families who are not receiving TANF, not in the Head Start Program, and who meet the eligibility criteria for child care, to the extent funding is available.

3. SNAP child care. Child care subsidy and services are made available to children of parents in Virginia's SNAPET program to allow participation in an approved activity.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 21, Issue 19, eff. August 1, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 32, Issue 07, eff. February 1, 2016.

Statutory Authority

§ 63.2-217 of the Code of Virginia; 45 CFR 98.11.