A family in receipt of public assistance requests child care services. The SEM agency has defined specific child care services for public assistance recipients or customized the out-of-the-box sample fund rule set to evaluate a client's public assistance status as part of selecting funds.
A child care case worker defines a care plan, specifying the child care services to be delivered to the eligible children in the family. The case worker approves the plan item and Funded Program Management is invoked by this process.
The system identifies a list of potential funds to which the service can be associated, for example, Federal TANF fund, State Assistance Fund and a City Assistance fund. The funds are then sorted based on a spending priority, for example, (1) State Assistance fund (2) TANF fund and (3) City Assistance fund, and evaluated in order to determine if sufficient funds exist to obligate the child care service.
The State Assistance funds do not have sufficient funds; however, there are sufficient funds for the TANF fund and City Assistance fund. TANF fund, being higher priority, is selected for the obligation. An obligation is created against the TANF fund for the expected cost of the child care plan line item and a successful indication is returned to the child care module.