Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Department of Human Services › Chapter 600 - OVERVIEW › Section 17-600-3 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
For the purpose of this subtitle unless the context
				  otherwise indicates:
"Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)" means the
				  financial assistance program administered by the DHS-FASD under Title IV-A of
				  the Social Security Act (
				  42
				  U.S.C. §§601 -
				  610
				  ).
"Applicant" means an individual applying for or requesting
				  social services, financial assistance or food stamps.
"Branch" means any one of the four work units within the
				  family and adult services division which administers the social services,
				  financial assistance and food stamp programs in the counties of Kauai, Oahu,
				  Maui, and Hawaii.
"Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)" means the annual
				  cumulation of executive agency regulations published in the daily Federal
				  Register, combined with regulations issued previously that are still in effect.
				  The CFR contains the general body of regulatory laws governing practice and
				  procedure before federal administrative agencies.
"Department (DHS)" means the department of human
				  services.
"Director" means the administrative head of the department
				  of human services unless otherwise specifically noted.
"Eligibility worker (EW), payment worker, or income
				  maintenance worker (IMW)" means an employee of DHS-FASD responsible to process
				  the determination of financial assistance, medicaid, or food stamps.
"Family and adult services division (FASD)" means the work
				  unit within the department which administers the social services, financial
				  assistance and food stamp programs.
"Family and adult services division administrator (FASDA)"
				  means the administrative head of the family and adult service division of the
				  department of human services.
"Federal register (Fed. Reg.)" means the daily publication
				  for making available to the public federal agency regulations and other legal
				  documents of the executive branch including proposed changes. The regulations
				  and rules as finally approved appear thereafter in the CFR.
"Financial assistance" means public assistance excluding
				  medical assistance, social services, and transportation assistance.
"Food stamp program" means the program administered by the
				  DHS-FASD under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, (
				  7 U.S.C.
				  §§2011 -
				  2027
				  ) as amended, to provide food stamps to persons found eligible under the
				  eligibility requirements.
"HIV/AIDS" means human immunodeficiency virus/acquired
				  immunodeficiency syndrome, a fatal infectious disease caused by the human
				  immunodeficiency virus that damages the body's immune system and leads to the
				  body's inability to fight off infections.
"In camera review" means the review of records privately in
				  a judge's chambers or in a courtroom void of all spectators before the judge
				  makes a determination of the admissibility or use of these records in the
				  proceedings.
"General assistance (GA)" means the financial assistance
				  program administered by the DHS-FASD under §
									346-71,
				  HRS.
"Hawaii revised statutes (HRS)" means the official
				  codification of all the laws of a general and permanent nature of the state of
				  Hawaii.
"Income maintenance" means the combined programs of
				  financial assistance and food stamps.
"Public assistance (PA)" means social services rendered and
				  financial, and medical assistance paid to or for individuals whom the family
				  and adult services division determines meet eligibility requirements specified
				  in subtitle 6 and subtitle 9 of title 17.
"Recipient or client" means any person to whom a service is
				  rendered or a grant of social services or financial assistance is made by
				  direct payment, and any person for whose use and benefit a service is rendered
				  or a grant of social services or financial assistance is made by payment to a
				  relative or other person.
"Section" means a collection of units within a branch with
				  responsibilities in specific public welfare programs areas such as income
				  maintenance or social services.
"Social services" means crisis intervention, counseling,
				  case management, and support activities such as day care and chore services
				  provided by the department staff, by purchase of service, or by cooperative
				  agreement with other agencies to persons meeting specified eligibility
				  requirements. Social services provided by the DHS-FASD shall be administered
				  under Titles IV-B (
				  42
				  U.S.C. §§620 -
				  629 ), IV-C ( 42 U.S.C.
				  §§630 - 644 ), IV-E (
				  42 U.S.C.
				  §671 ), and XX (
				  42 U.S.C.
				  §1397 ) of the Social Security Act, as
				  amended and chapters
				  346 and
				  363, HRS.
"State AABD" means state-funded financial assistance program
				  administered by the department of human services for aged, blind and disabled
				  individuals.
"Supplemental security income (SSI)" means the financial
				  assistance program of aid, based on need, to the aged, blind, and disabled,
				  administered by the federal Social Security Administration under Title XVI of
				  the Social Security Act (
				  42 U.S.C.
				  §§1381 -
				  1383
				  ).
"Unit" means the work unit within a section or branch which
				  administers the social services, financial assistance or food stamp
				  program.
"United States code (U.S.C.)" means the official
				  codification of all the laws of a general and permanent nature of the United
				  States. Every six years a new edition of the U.S.C. is published with
				  cumulative supplement volumes issued during the intervening years.
"Vendor" means a third party who receives payment directly
				  from the department in return for services or goods rendered on behalf of the
				  recipient.