Section 50.310  Fees for Child Care Services

a)         All families must share in the cost of child care as illustrated in Section 50.320, except the following:

1)         relatives (other than parents) who receive a child-only TANF benefit for children needing care due to the relatives' employment;

2)         families approved for CCAP Protective Child Care services due to experiencing homelessness;

3)         parenting youth in care, as defined in Section 4d of the Children and Family Services Act, who are parents, while they remain youth in care and for 12 months after the parenting youth in care’s case with the Department of Children and Family Services is closed;

4)         families receiving Extended Family Support Program services from the Department of Children and Family Services; and

5)         families with active CCAP cases in which a parent in the household is called into active military duty.

b)         CCAP-eligible families with a parent or guardian who is a child care worker, will have their co-payments assessed at $1.00 per month.  For the purposes of this subsection, a child care worker is any employee at a licensed day care center, day care center exempt from licensing, licensed day care home, licensed group day care home, and day care homes exempt from licensing who spends 75% or more of their regular daily scope of work in service of early childhood education and care.

c)         If all of the children in care are of school age and are approved for part-time (less than 5 hours per day) day care for any month September through May, the parent share is 50% of the amount shown in Section 50.320.  A school age child is a child whose age is 5 to 13 years and is enrolled in school.

(Source:  Amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 20819, effective December 15, 2022)