3. Any discounts or scholarships that are available to parents, and any discounts or scholarships that the parent is receiving.
4. The parent’s payment schedule.
5. The provider’s anticipated closure dates.
6. Payment expectations for the child’s anticipated and unanticipated absences and the provider’s closure dates.
7. Parent procedures for termination of a child’s enrollment.
8. Provider procedures for termination of a child’s enrollment.
(c) A provider shall retain a copy of each current written payment agreement at the location where child care is provided.
(d) A provider shall retain a copy of an expired written payment agreement for at least 3 years after the child last day of attendance. The agreement shall be kept at a location where it can be made available to the department within 24 hours.
Note: DCF-F-5224, Provider/Parent Child Care Payment Agreement, is a voluntary form that a provider may use to comply with this subsection.
(6) nondiscrimination. A provider may not charge a parent that receives a child care subsidy a higher child care price than a private pay parent is charged for a similar amount of child care, unless the difference is due to the children being in different age ranges under s. DCF 201.06 (1) (b) or a child’s special needs under s. DCF 201.06 (8). (7) confidentiality. A provider may not do any of the following:
(a) Require a parent to disclose the balance in the parent’s child care subsidy account.
(b) Require a parent to provide the parent’s EBT card, account number, or personal identification number to the provider.
(c) Possess a photocopy, photo, or other image of a parent’s EBT card.
(d) Possess a parent’s subsidy account number or personal identification number.
(8) inactive family. A child care provider shall notify the local child care administrative agency if the child of a parent who receives a child care subsidy has not attended within the previous 30 days.
SECTION 3. DCF 201.04 (1), (3), (4), and (5) (b) 5. are created to read:
DCF 201.04 (1) general. The child care subsidy in a parent’s account may only be used to compensate a provider that is in compliance with s. DCF 201.038 (1) for child care authorized under s. DCF 201.039 for the child of a parent eligible under s. 49.155 (1m), Stats., and provided within the terms of the provider’s regulation and the parent’s authorization. (3) inactive account. The department may terminate a parent’s authorization and retract all child care subsidy funds in the parent’s account if the parent has not paid any of the child care subsidy to the provider within the previous 90 days.
(4) intentional program violation. A child care administrative agency shall consider a parent’s attempt to sell access to the parent’s child care subsidy account to an unauthorized person to be an intentional program violation under s. 49.151 (2), Stats. (5) (b) 5. A provider misrepresented information that resulted in the provider receiving a higher star rating and a higher maximum rate than the provider was eligible to receive under the child care quality rating system in ss. 48.659 and 49.155 (6) (e), Stats. SECTION 4. DCF 201.06 (3) (c) 2. is amended to read:
DCF 201.06 (3) (c) 2. The center or day camp has not established full-time, weekly, or full-time monthly child care prices.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This rule shall take effect the first day of the month following publication in the Administrative Register, as provided in s. 227.22 (2) (intro.), Stats.
