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The Understanding the CARES Act brief is a supplement to the CCDF Information Memorandum (CCDF-ACF-IM-2020-01) released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 29, 2020.
National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund programs in developing child care subsidy systems that are child-focused, family-friendly, and fair to providers. NCSIA works with grantees to help them reach goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support providing high-quality care to more children from low-income families.
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Equal access and market rate surveys are important concepts for CCDF leaders. Market rate surveys can impact payment rates, which must be sufficient to ensure equal access.
Collaboration Between CCDF and TANF to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Working Families outlines why collaboration with TANF is important and the beginning steps in collaboration. It also offers examples of how CCDF and TANF can collaborate, including various state initiatives and highlights fiscal considerations for both programs.
The CCDF Fraud Toolkit is an evolving resource designed to assist CCDF Lead Agencies in increasing program integrity and accountability and decreasing fraud within their child care programs.
The State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool assists states and territories with calculating annual and monthly SMI estimates and FPL levels for determining income eligibility and family copayments for their child care subsidy programs.
Comprehensive background check resources are available that break down the requirements into easier to understand language.
Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care aims to support Lead Agencies and their partners as they create cost estimates, prepare detailed reports, and use cost estimates to inform their rate setting.
The Error Rate Review training module provides state administrative staff with background on the federal error rate review and covers the steps needed to complete the error rate review process..
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This guide is intended as an advisory resource for CCDF administrators who are considering information technology (IT) projects in support of their child care programs. The guide offers ideas about:
- how to conceptualize an IT project,
- project planning activities that...
The purpose of this brief is to assist Lead Agencies in understanding the pooling factor as it relates to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) error rate review. The first section includes a description of the pooling factor and how it is used in the error rate review. Then, guidance is...
This webinar covered front-end detection and investigation strategies by walking through federal requirements, common strategies, and benefits to promote program integrity and accountability within the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).
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An overview of the CCDF subsidy program, its requirements and flexibilities, and strategies for caseload...
An Introduction to CCDF program integrity for Tribes of all allocation sizes.
This webinar explores subsidy eligibility, equal access, changes to eligibility criteria, and wait lists and enrollment freezes for medium- and large-allocation Tribal CCDF Grantees.
This resource discusses the use of administrative data in conducting market rate surveys, highlighting considerations for CCDF Lead Agencies in selecting administrative data for their market rate surveys.
The webinar provided information on the benefits of program integrity strategies, including a discussion of specific state examples from Sections 8.1.3 (identifying risk) and 8.1.4 (identifying fraud) of the 2019-2021 State Plan submissions. In addition, North Carolina’s Lead Agency presented...
This January 2020 presentation for Region VIII Lead Agencies, titled CCDF Fiscal Fundamentals, provided an overview of the CCDF program from a fiscal management perspective, allowable uses of CCDF funds, priority funding, reporting, and budget considerations.
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