Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 5 - HAWAII EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW
Subchapter 2 - ELIGIBILITY AND DISQUALIFICATION FOR BENEFITS
Section 12-5-33 - Successive benefit year requirements

(a) No otherwise eligible individual may receive benefits in a succeeding benefit year unless the individual performed services in "covered employment" as defined in section 12-5-1 for remuneration after the beginning of the prior benefit year. Remuneration received after the beginning of the prior benefit year for services performed previous to that benefit year shall not be used to meet the successive benefit year requirements.

(b) Disability benefit payments, vacation pay, separation pay or back pay shall not be used to satisfy the successive benefit year requirements where they are not for services performed in covered employment.