Section 20. Families and children served

Child care services are provided to children in eligible families that meet the following criteria:

1. Need for child care.

a. Families served must have an established need for child care subsidy. In two-parent households there must be good cause why either parent cannot provide the needed child care.

b. Child care can be provided to support:

(1) Employment,

(2) Approved education or training, or

(3) Child protective services.

2. Financial eligibility. Families served must be financially eligible to receive child care subsidy.

3. Residence. Children served must be legal residents of the United States and must reside in the locality where application is made.

4. Age of children. Children served must be under age 13, or under the age of 18 if they are physically or mentally incapable of caring for themselves or subject to court supervision. Child care must not be purchased for children who are eligible to attend public kindergarten or for older children during that portion of a day when appropriate public education is available, unless there are valid and documented reasons the children must be out of school.

5. Children of owners or operators of family day homes. A child of an owner or operator of a family day home shall not be eligible to receive a child care subsidy if that child will be cared for in the home of the owner or operator.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 21, Issue 19, eff. August 1, 2005.

Statutory Authority

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