(1) Pay stubs that indicate the days and hours of employment; or

(2) Pay stubs that indicate the total hours of employment per pay period, as long as the hours generally correlate with the parent's requested number of hours needed each week.

(3) When the pay stubs do not meet the criteria of either subsections (1) or (2) above, the contractor shall verify the days and hours, or the total number of hours, of employment each week by doing one of the following:

(4) If the parent's employment precludes the contractor from verifying a specific number of hours per week, the contractor shall use the provided documentation from either month of the two-month window immediately preceding the initial certification or recertification and identify the highest number of actual hours worked within any given week and use that as the basis for approving the certified schedule on the application for services.

(5) If at the time of initial certification or recertification the parent does not have a work history, the contractor shall establish the certified schedule based on the verified days and hours or the highest number of total hours per week the employer expects the parent to work.

(6) If the employer refuses or is non-responsive in providing the requested information, the contractor shall record the attempts to contact the employer and specify in the family data file the reasonableness of the days and hours of employment based on the description of the employment and community practice.

(7) If the parent asserts in a declaration signed under penalty of perjury that a request for employer documentation would adversely affect the parent's employment, the contractor shall review the declaration and determine whether the days and hours of employment based on the parent's description of the employment and community practice are reasonable and include the declaration and determination of reasonableness in the family data file.

(8) When the employed parent does not have pay stubs or other record of wages from the employer and has provided a self-certification of income, as defined in section 17700, the contractor shall assess the reasonableness of the days and hours of employment, based on the description of the employment and the documentation provided pursuant to section 17762, and authorize only the time determined to be reasonable.

(1) A declaration of need under penalty of perjury that includes a description of the employment and an estimate of the days and hours worked per week; and

(2) As many of the following documents needed to support the days and hours of employment:

(1) Travel time to and from the location at which services are provided and the place of employment, not to exceed half of the daily hours authorized for employment, to a maximum of four hours per day;

(2) Sleep time, if the parent is employed anytime between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., not to exceed the number of hours authorized for employment and travel between those hours.

(3) Sleep time shall not be provided when: