Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 799 - PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS (POD)
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 17-799-22 - Termination for insufficient funds

(a) The department may, at its discretion, refuse to take new applications, refuse to enroll priority applicants who have been waitlisted, reduce payments, or terminate payments when there are insufficient funds to pay child care payments at current amounts through the end of the State fiscal year.

(b) Refusal to take new applications, refusal to enroll approved priority applicants who have been waitlisted, reducing payments, or terminating payments will first be accomplished in reverse priority from what is listed in section 17-799-7. Priority will further be determined within the categories set forth in section 17-799-7 by income, with higher income family units' payments reduced or terminated first.

(c) The department budget will be managed by reviewing monthly expenditures and evaluating whether the cumulative expenditures at the end of any given month are less than or equal to the number of months that have expired in the fiscal year times 1/12 of the budget appropriation for child care payments for the State fiscal year.

(d) When the department determines that the budget appropriation has or soon will be exceeded, notices of adverse action may be issued to limit the number of children receiving payments in any given month or to take other necessary action to operate within the child care budget appropriation and available funds. A decision under this subsection shall be final and conclusive.