Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 5 - HAWAII EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW
Subchapter 3 - CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS; DETERMINATIONS; APPEALS
Section 12-5-73 - Definitions

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms used in sections 12-5-77 to 12-5-93 shall have the following meaning:

"Additional claim" means a notice of new unemployment filed in accordance with section 12-5-81 at the beginning of a second or subsequent period of eligibility within a previously established benefit year when a break of one week or more has occurred in the claim series with intervening employment.

"Continued claim certification" means an application which certifies to the completion of a week of total, part-total, or partial unemployment either to satisfy a week of the waiting period requirement or to claim benefits for a week of unemployment;

"Initial claim" includes a new claim, additional claim, or a reopened claim;

"New claim" means the first claim filed in accordance with section 12-5-81 to request a determination of eligibility for benefits and a computation of the maximum benefits payable and the weekly rate at which benefits may be payable;

"Reopened claim" means an application for determination of eligibility for benefits and which certifies to the beginning date of a period of unemployment which would fall within a benefit year previously established for which a continued claim certification or series thereof may be filed, and which follows a break in a claim series previously established, due to illness, disqualification, unavailability, or failure to report for any reason other than re-employment.