New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES › Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services › Subchapter C - Social Services › Article 2 - Family and Children's Services › Part 415 - Child Care Services › Section 415.4 - Local district responsibility

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Each local social services district shall be responsible
						for compliance with the following requirements:
(a)
Initial eligibility.
(1) At the time of application for child care
					 services, the social services district must inform the applicant of:
(i) the various child care services programs
					 available and the requirements of the child care services programs for which
					 the applicant may be eligible including information about the child care
					 guarantee for applicants and recipients of public assistance and for families
					 transitioning from public assistance set forth in section 410-w (3)  of the Social
					 Services Law. Such information must describe the actions that the family needs
					 to take in order to be eligible for the child care guarantee;
(ii) the applicant's responsibility for
					 reporting all relevant facts to the social services district in order that a
					 proper determination of the applicant's eligibility for child care assistance
					 can be made, for reporting immediately to the social services district any
					 changes to such facts after the application has been submitted but before
					 eligibility has been determined, and for providing the documents or other
					 information which the applicant must submit to verify such facts;
(iii) the fact that any investigation needed
					 in order to determine the applicant's eligibility will be undertaken;
(iv) a recipient's responsibility for
					 notifying the social services district immediately of any change in financial
					 circumstances that puts the family income over 85 percent of the state median
					 income, living arrangements, employment, household composition, child care
					 provider or other circumstances that affect the family's need or eligibility
					 for child care services;
(v) a
					 recipient's responsibility to contribute toward the costs of the child care
					 services by paying a family share, if required as determined in accordance with
					 section
					 415.3(e) 
					 of this Part;
(vi) the child care
					 providers with which the social services district has arrangements for the
					 provision of child care services to recipients;
(vii) a recipient's option to choose between
					 the eligible providers set forth in section
					 415.1(g) 
					 of this Part;
(viii) a recipient's
					 responsibility to locate child care. In addition, a public assistance recipient
					 who needs child care in order to comply with his or her work requirements must
					 be notified of the provisions in section
					 415.8 
					 of this Part regarding the recipient's responsibility to locate child care and
					 to inform the district of the recipient's efforts to locate child care
					 including following up on referrals from the district, the applicable local
					 child care resource and referral agency and/or any other child care agency to
					 which the recipient is referred by the district;
(ix) information to assist a recipient to
					 make an informed choice regarding the provider from which the recipient wishes
					 to receive child care services; and
(x) a recipient's right to have child care
					 services provided without discrimination on the basis of race, religion,
					 national origin, sex, handicapping condition or political
					 belief.