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ELMPL 5 (ELI Funding)
Early Learning Manual Procedure Letter No. 5
July 15, 2009
TO: All Early Learning Manual Holders
FROM: Douglas E. Lumpkin, Director
SUBJECT: Funding for Payment of Early Learning Initiative (ELI) Services During the Interim Budget Period

This letter transmits instructions to Early Learning Initiative (ELI) agencies and ELI providers regarding payment for ELI services that are provided to eligible children during the current interim budget period. The Department is issuing these communications to keep ELI agencies and providers informed of policies and procedures as they are being determined during the budget process.

Early Learning Manual Procedure Letter No. 4, a memo from the Bureau of Child Care and Development dated June 25, 2009 and conference calls with ELI agencies on June 4, 2009 provided information on the two ELI pay cycles from July 1 to August 22, 2009.

The following provisions of ELMPL No. 4 are being clarified with this letter:

"The department has determined that these ELI-eligible children will continue to be eligible to receive ELI services for two pay cycles in SFY 2010 (July 1 to August 22, 2009) and may be eligible for child care benefits when they leave ELI. ELI contracted agencies will receive funding to serve children for two pay cycles."

The clarification is as follows: The Department intends to reimburse ELI agencies at 85% of the payment made in pay cycle 12 for at least the period of the interim budget and will seek to maintain that level of funding through the two pay cycles.

In addition, if Am. Sub. H.B. 1, the biennium budget, is passed before the end of the first pay cycle, July 25, and funding for the first two pay cycles is included, ELI agencies will receive payment for authorized services provided and submitted through KinderAttend with no delay.

If the budget is not passed by July 25, ELI agencies will be paid in part or will receive a delayed payment for services provided and submitted through KinderAttend. Payment will be made for services provided as long as the amount does not exceed the amount for the two pay cycle period.

INSTRUCTIONS: The following chart identifies the material that needs to be inserted into the Early Learning Manual (ELM).

LOCATIONREMOVE AND FILE AS OBSOLETEINSERT/REPLACE
ELM Procedure Letters ELMPL No. 5