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37.80.203    REQUIREMENT TO REPORT CHANGES

(1) Applicants and recipients of child care assistance must report to the resource and referral agency administering their case any change in their child care provider within one business day of the change.

(2) Applicants and recipients of child care assistance must report to the resource and referral agency administering their case any change in the following circumstances within ten calendar days from the date the applicant or recipient learns of the change:

(a) persons living in the applicant's or recipient's household;

(b) employment of any household member, including new employment, loss of employment, increase or decrease in working hours, and increase or decrease in earned income;

(c) increase or decrease in the household's monthly gross income;

(d) training or school attendance, including changes to the location or hours of the training and circumstances regarding satisfactory progress;

(e) mailing address, residential address, and phone number; and

(f) any change in:

(i) compliance by the applicant or recipient with any order or determination of DPHHS Child Support Enforcement Division;

(ii) receipt of child support by the applicant or recipient pursuant to a district court order, including but not limited to changes in the frequency or amount of child support received; or

(iii) circumstances concerning good faith reasons for an applicant or recipient not to pursue child support enforcement through the department's Child Support Enforcement Division.

(3) Changes that are required to be reported under this rule must be reported to the resource and referral agency administering the child care assistance case. A report to any other employee, contractor, or agent of the department does not satisfy the reporting requirements set forth in this rule.

(4) A household that receives any amount of child care assistance to which the household was not entitled, including due to the parent's failure to report changes in circumstances as required by this rule, shall repay all child care assistance received but to which the household was not entitled.

History: 52-2-704, 53-4-212, MCA; IMP, 52-2-704, 52-2-713, 53-2-108, 53-2-201, MCA; NEW, 2002 MAR p. 1553, Eff. 5/31/02; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2964, Eff. 12/8/06.

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