Once the Income, Family Fee, and the Care schedules have been added, you will now be able to utilize the Family Fee Assignment. The Family Fee Assignment is a tool that can be used to determine which months will be considered either Full time or Part time throughout the care schedule period.

1. Click on the Family Fee section and then click on the Assignment sub-section.

   1. Month From and Month To can be used to search for previous assignments

   2. Click Assign to start running the assignment

   3. Select the care you want to run the assignment for and then click Done

   4. You will be able to confirm the assignment and make any changes if needed.

      1. Using the drop down you are able to change the Family Fee associated with any month. You can change it to Full Time(FT), Part Time(PT), or if the Family Fee should be waived you can select N/A
         

         
         
         
         

          

      2. Once confirmed click Done

   5. You will be able to review the assignment and if any changes are needed, you can click on the pencil icon to make edits to the assignment

      1. You will be able to change the Family Fee type or change the care it is associated with

         

         

      2. If any edits are made, click done in order to save the changes or cancel to undo the edit

    

2. Family Fee Full Time (FT) and Part Time (PT) category is determined by monthly hours.

   Following CDSS rule, it is weekly total hours x 4.33 to give the estimated hours per month, regardless of length of the month.

   For school age children, need to determine the combination of school and vacation:

   1. Use child’s school calendar for the care period

      1. If month has school days <= non school days, use normal schedule hours

         1. Only use weekdays to compare, do not include weekends

      2. If month has school days < non school days, use normal schedule hours

   2. Wk hours x 4.33