Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 678 - FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE STANDARDS FOR INDIVIDUALS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING ARRANGEMENTS, RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES, OR DOMICILIARY CARE HOMES
Section 17-678-3.01 - Monthly assistance allowance for TANF individuals in independent living arrangements or residential treatment facilities
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-678-3.01
Current through February, 2024
(a) The monthly assistance allowance shall be the basic needs expressed in a dollar amount per individual or household. The monthly assistance allowance includes cost for food, household supplies, personal essentials, educational and community activities, laundry, transportation, telephone, household equipment, household repairs, pregnancy diet, and shelter.
(b) The monthly assistance allowance for TANF individuals in independent living arrangements or residential treatment facilities shall be forty-right per cent of the standard of need.
(1) After the first two full months of
assistance, the monthly assistance allowance for work eligible households shall
be reduced by twenty percent; provided that the reduction shall not apply to a
work eligible household in which each adult in the assistance unit is an
independent minor parent and is a full-time student, as defined in section
17-656.1-2.
(2) The two full months
of assistance shall be counted from the month following the month a work
eligible household is informed of the work requirements of the TANF program and
shall be allowed once in a work eligible household's history of receiving TANF
assistance.
(3) A full month shall
be a month in which the household is eligible for an assistance payment and the
payment is not prorated.
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