Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Department of Human Services › Chapter 685 - REPLACEMENT OF STOLEN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS, SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) BENEFITS, AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICE PAYMENTS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 17-685-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter:
"Aid to the aged, blind and disabled" or "AABD" means
					 financial assistance benefits for food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials
					 provided to qualified elderly adults aged sixty-five years and older, or
					 individuals who meet the Social Security Administration definition of blind or
					 disabled.
"Alternate payee" means an adult designated by the
					 household to receive an EBT card.
"Authorized representative" means a person designated in
					 writing by the head of a household, the spouse, or other responsible household
					 member, to act on behalf of a household in applying for program benefits, and
					 in securing and using cash or SNAP benefits. For SNAP benefits, it shall also
					 mean a private nonprofit organization or institution conducting a substance use
					 disorder or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation center, or a public or
					 private nonprofit group living arrangement whose residents are blind or
					 disabled recipients of benefits under Title II or Title XVI of the Social
					 Security Act (42 U.S.C.
					 §§
											401-433;
					 1381-1383), which will act on
					 behalf of households who reside at the centers in applying for and obtaining
					 food stamps.
"Benefit" means SNAP, financial assistance or supportive
					 service payment provided to a qualified household unit or an individual member
					 of the qualified household unit.
"Card cloning" means the electronic theft by covertly and
					 illegally duplicating information of a debit, credit or EBT card that is copied
					 onto a blank card or is overwritten onto another card.
"Card skimming" means the electronic theft of information
					 on a debit, credit, or EBT card without the authorization of the card owner, by
					 using a skimmer device to transfer, obtain, or record card information.
"Caretaker" means an adult, or an emancipated minor, who
					 resides with and is responsible for the care of a child, and who is a birth,
					 hanai, foster, or adoptive parent, guardian, permanent custodian, stepparent,
					 or relative who is related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption, or a
					 person authorized by the caretaker through a power of attorney valid for a
					 period not to exceed twelve months. The caretaker designation may remain even
					 when the caretaker is temporarily absent from the home as long as the caretaker
					 continues to maintain responsibility for the care, education, and financial
					 support of the child. This includes a foster parent who may not be providing
					 financial support to the child but may be receiving support for the child from
					 a private or public agency. This also includes minor teen parents who are birth
					 parents to the child but cannot apply for child care payments themselves and
					 must have an adult apply on their behalf.
"Child care subsidy" means a payment made to low-income
					 parents, guardians, or other responsible parties to pay for the care of a child
					 under the age of thirteen years, or age thirteen years or older if the child
					 has qualifying special needs as defined under federal law.
"Department" or "DHS" means the department of human
					 services, State of Hawaii.
"Electronic benefit transfer" or "EBT" means the
					 computer-based system that processes and distributes authorized financial
					 assistance, SNAP benefit, or supportive service payments in the form of cash,
					 to qualified households from a central computer through an automated teller
					 machine or point-of-sale device.
"Federal fiscal year" means the period of twelve
					 consecutive months from October to September.
"Financial assistance" means cash benefits provided to
					 qualified individuals and families through the aid to the aged, blind, and
					 disabled program, general assistance program, or the federal- or state-funded
					 temporary assistance for needy families program.
"First-to-Work" or "FTW" means the mandatory work program
					 for household units that apply for or receive TANF financial assistance
					 benefits.
"Fraud" means willfully providing a false statement or
					 misrepresentation of a fact or concealing or withholding facts which results in
					 the receipt of a replacement financial assistance, SNAP benefit, or supportive
					 service payment that would not otherwise result without the false statement or
					 withheld facts, or any action by an individual or household unit for the
					 purpose of establishing or maintaining a claim of stolen financial assistance,
					 SNAP benefit, or a supportive service benefit.
"General assistance" or "GA" means the financial assistance
					 benefits for food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials provided to
					 qualified adults ages eighteen through sixty-four years, without minor
					 dependents, who are temporarily disabled and who do not qualify for Social
					 Security benefits.
"Head of the household unit" means the responsible adult
					 member of the recipient household unit who requests a replacement of the
					 household's financial or SNAP benefits or a replacement of a household member's
					 supportive service payment.
"Household unit" means all members and excluded standard
					 filing unit members who reside in the same residence and receive financial or
					 SNAP benefits as one household, or a household with at least one member who
					 receives supportive service payments.
"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" or 'SNAP" means
					 the program that provides food assistance to qualifying low-income and needy
					 households.
"Supportive service payment" means a child care subsidy or
					 FTW program payment issued to an eligible household unit or individual member
					 of the household unit.
"Temporary assistance for needy families" or "TANF" means
					 the federally funded financial assistance benefits provided to qualified
					 families with dependent children under the age of eighteen years.
"Temporary assistance for other needy families" or "TAONF"
					 means the state-funded financial assistance benefits provided to qualified
					 families with dependent children under the age of eighteen years where there is
					 at least one household member that is not a U.S. citizen.
"Timely report" means the report of an electronic benefits
					 theft within thirty calendar days from the date the theft was discovered for
					 financial assistance and supportive service payments; or retroactive up to
					 sixty calendar days after October 1, 2022 for SNAP benefits.