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Encouraging Clients to Choose Quality Child Care

Last Updated March 7, 2024

How to Find Quality Child Care

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Child Care, Child Care Locator, Choosing Quality Child Care, Early Head Start, Head Start, Quality Care, STAR

TANF Background Check

Last Updated July 8, 2019

FYI on Background checks regarding TANF participants

Subject: TANF Topics: 52A sanction, background check, Child Care, medical field, OSBI, OSBI request, TANF participants, WEP, Work Experience Program

TANF and Child Care

Last Updated August 12, 2026

Child care may be approved for any activity that is included on a TANF client’s TW-2, TANF Work/Personal Responsibility Agreement. When a TANF case closes for failure to participate in the TANF work activity (52A), the worker closes the child care benefit effective 90-calendar days from the date the client stops participating. When TANF closes […]

Subject: Child Care Subsidy, TANF Topics: Appendix C-4, Child Care, child care renewal, Copayment, FACS, Family Share Copayment, Participation, TANF, TANF Work activity, TW-2

SSI & Child Care

Last Updated December 2, 2025

How to consider SSI income for child care cases.

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Child Care, Income, predetermined eligibility, predetermined eligible, SSI, Unearned Income

NON-PS2 Instructions (Social Services)

Last Updated October 24, 2024

This is a list with descriptions of the non-PS2 fields in the FACS Social Services Tab.

Subject: Systems Help Topics: Child Care, counseling, Domestic Violence, FACS, gambling addiction, Non-PS2 Instructions, Social Services Tab, Substance Abuse, tobacco addiction

How to Certify a Child Care Application (Non-Unfinished Issuance)

Last Updated August 12, 2026

How to certify a child care case/authorization lines.

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Authorization, Authorization Lines, Authorize Child Care, Certify, Certify Child Care, Child Care, coding, open

UpdatedHow to Process a Child Care Renewal

Last Updated August 3, 2026

Steps to complete a child care review.

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Annual, Child Care, Child Care Review, coding, MCR, Renewal, Review, units

How to Retro-Certify Child Care Authorization

Last Updated May 3, 2017

Creates an authorization for child care where eligibility occurred in the past.

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Child Care, child care authorization, end date, past eligibility, retro-certification

PS2 Instructions – Section E (Child Care)

Last Updated November 13, 2020

This is a list with descriptions of each Section E field in IMS.

Subject: Systems Help Topics: Benefit Review, Child Care, child care authorization, IMS, PS2 Instructions, Renewal Action, Section E

Benefit Reporting

Last Updated May 1, 2017

How the system determines whether a Child Care case will be a benefit reporter.

Subject: Child Care Subsidy Topics: Annual Reporters, Benefit Reporting, Certification Period, Child Care, Reporter Status, Review